Plus One Flyers Safety

We take safety very seriously at Plus One Flyers and are proud of our excellent safety record, which we attribute to the care and good judgment of our member pilots and our Safety Program, led by Safety Officer Bob Agresto.

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Safety Program

Plus One Flyers Safety Record Nets 38% Insurance Reduction - A whopping 38% reduction in aircraft insurance premiums paid by the club relative to 2006 rates highlights the success of the club's Safety Program and the collective excellent flying judgment, skills and habits of club members, and helps offset rising fuel costs!  Keep up the great work and best flying practices, everyone!

THE PLUS ONE FLYERS SAFETY PROGRAM - Personal flight is a privilege and uniquely American legacy we take seriously and endeavor to protect and promote.  The club's Safety Program was created to specifically and proactively manage our club member pilot flying risks. While no panacea, the program has produced undeniably tangible results for many years, including year after year accident avoidance.

There are two cornerstones of the Safety Program, the first of which is the club's member CFIs, who through the club's semi-monthly CFI Safety Meetings, conducted by the club's Safety Officer, are continually updated and inculcated with safety-oriented decision-making training techniques, post-incident or post-accident analyses, and open and professional discussion and Q&A of new FAA requirements and club policies.  The meetings are mandatory at least once every six months for a CFI to retain authorization to give flight instruction in club airplanes.

The second cornerstone of the Safety Program is the club-mandated ANNUAL flight review for every member not already in an active training syllabus, twice as often as the FAA requires.  Not only does this immediately encourage higher flight proficiency, it provides twice the opportunity for our member CFIs to evaluate, train and coach our club members to a higher standard of club pilot expectations, and review and reinforce the club's Bylaws, Operational Rules and Code of Conduct, which are reasonable, sensible and easy to follow.

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Safety Program Updates

• SAFETY REMINDERS HOTLIST
  • Slow Taxi Speeds on the Ramp - Keep taxi speeds on the parking ramps slow with engine at or below 1000 RPM, especially in proximity of other aircraft.
  • Watch wing and tail clearance - During aircraft taxiing and pushback watch wing and tail clearances carefully.  During pushback put your passenger or CFI to work as a "wing-walker" to watch wing and tail clearances for you.
  • Don't blow debris into auto parking lots - Pull your aircraft forward and away from parking areas before you start the engine to avoid blowing debris onto your fellow members' parked cars.
  • No open-toe shoes or sandals may be worn by the pilot in command or student pilots.
  • Storage of Loose Items and Tow Bar - Keep loose items and the aircraft tow bar secured. Always place the tow bar in the lower baggage compartment or into its snap-holder instead of the upper shelf, where it might fall into the empennage control cables.
  • Park Props in HORIZONTAL POSITION after parking airplane with magnetos OFF to reduce the risk of catching the surface of other taxiing aircraft.
  • Push-back parking of aircraft - When returning to the ramp in rows of parked aircraft please do not power your airplane into its parking place, but rather taxi straight ahead past your parking space, and after shutdown use the tow bar to back the airplane into its space.    During pushback put your passenger or CFI to work as a "wing-walker" to watch wing and tail clearances for you. Make sure the magnetos are OFF and key is removed prior to attaching the tow bar.
  • Write and Call-In Squawks - When returning from a flight write up your squawks on the squawk sheet and call them in to the owner/maintenance as indicated and mark the “WHO CALLED" column.
  • Check ADs and Inspection Compliance DURING PREFLIGHT - Review the aircraft status sheet to determine that all inspections are current, especially Airworthiness Directives (AD NOTES). If out of compliance, first call the owner/maintenance as indicated by the squawk sheet to determine if the inspection has been completed. Keep in mind that the 50 hour and 100 hour inspections are not mandated and can be expired.

• MANDATORY CFI SAFETY MEETINGS - All Plus One Flyers FAA-Certified Flight Instructor members giving instruction, flight reviews or checkouts in club airplanes are required to attend at least one safety meeting within the previous six months. All club members are also invited to attend CFI safety meetings, which are held at the Montgomery Terminal building first floor conference room (under Casa Machado restaurant) unless otherwise specified.
  
  Scheduled CFI Safety Meetings

  • Saturday September 20, 1300

  • Monday September 22, 1830

  • Thursday November 20, 1830

  • Saturday November 22, 1000
     

• SAFETY AND AVIATION TECHNICAL PAPERS & ARTICLES BY PLUS ONE FLYERS MEMBERS
  • GPS Measurement of Aircraft Glide Ratio
   
• OTHER SAFETY RESOURCES
  • AOPA Air Safety Foundation - Safety articles, reports, databases, free online courses for FAA WINGS program credit, and more - www.aopa.org/asf .
  • FAA Safety - www.faasafety.gov