# Presentation: 475914

## Slide 1

## U.S. Department of Transportation

- U.S. Department of Transportation

**Federal Aviation ****Administration**

## Jim Cooney

- Safety Program
- Manager
- HLN  FSDO

## Helena Flight Standards Safety Program

- http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/hlnfsdo/
- e-mail:   James.Cooney@faa.dot.gov

## Operations at Nontowered Airports

- Airports with Control Towers
- 400
- Airports without Control Towers
- 12,000

## Federal Aviation Regulations

- FAR  91.113 - Right of Way Rules
- FAR  91.126 - Operations on or in the vicininty of an airport in Class G Airspace
- FAR  91.127 - Operations on or in the vicininty of an airport in Class E Airspace

## Federal Aviation Regulations

- Traffic procedures at non towered airports are advisory in nature, not regulatory.

##   Midair Collision Aviodance

- Most midair collisions occur
- within 5 miles of an airport
- and below 3000’ AGL
- most often on the Downwind
- or Final Leg of the Approach

##   Midair Collision Aviodance

- Use of landing lights is recommended
- within 10 miles of any airport and
- could be the cheapest life insurance you can get!

## FAA & the AOPA Air Safety Foundation

*Pilot Operations at Non Towered Airports*

## NTSB U.S. Transportation Fatalities

- Highway		40,676	41,700
- Aviation		   1,071	     969
- Marine		     855	     904

- 1994

- 1995

## Learn from the Mistakes of Others....

***You will not live long enough ******to make them all yourself!***

## Aircraft Accidents by YearState of Montana

## Good Judgment comes from experience... 

- Experience is often the result of bad judgment!

## Aircraft Fatalities by YearState of Montana

## Aircraft Fatalities by YearState of Montana

- Three Leading Causes of Fatalities in Montana

## Stall - Spin Accidents

-  3rd Leading cause of fatalities.
-  Need to stress recurrent training.
-  High level  vs  low level stalls.
-  Need to teach approach to stall  awareness.
-  Need to develop immediate reactions  to approach to low level stall situations.

## Don’t put yourself in a situation 

*Don’t put yourself **in a situation *
*where you are comitted*
*to just *_*one*_* course of action!*

## VMC into IMC

-  2rd Leading cause of fatalities
-  Need to stress the importance of   _not pressing the weather_
-  Legal minimums not necessarily   safe minimums
-  178 Seconds
-  The  180 degree turn can be a life   saving maneuver

## Vertigo

- Is when you brain is maneuvering
- differently than the airplane is

## If the weather briefing makes you nervous... 

-   What makes you think the*** *****flight** will calm your nerves?

## If you and not comfortable with your situation... 

- You are probably not SAFE!

## It’s better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air than it is 

- to be in the air, wishing you were on the ground!

## Unwarranted Low Level Flying

-  	_The_ _Leading_ _Cause_ of _Fatalities_ in 		Montana
-  	Low level sight-seeing
-  	Looking for Elk or Game
-  	Just Plain Buzzing
-  	Life Threatening Situation
-  	39 Fatalities over 10 year period

## Unwarranted Low Level Flying

-  	Accident near Columbus
-  	Accident near St Ignatius
-     Coyote hunting, Elk spotting
-    	Sightseeing Accidents
-     Accident at Lakeside

## Minimum Safe Altitude

- A.   One where you don’t hit anything.
- B.   One where you don’t have to worry          	 about hitting anything.
- C.  One where neither you, nor your       passengers nor the FAA have to       worry about you hitting anything!

## Special Emphasis

-  Approach to Stall Awareness
-  Dangers of VMC to IMC
-  Dangers involved in Unwarranted    Low Level Flight

## Nor is carelessness...

**Nor is ****carelessness****...**
**COURAGE!!**

## “A Superior pilot is onewho stays out of trouble 

- by using Superior Judgmentto avoid situations
- which might require the use of Superior skill.”

##   Thanks

*  **Thanks*
*for your attention  !!!*

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