CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 3 - 24

Ask AtC
minimum fuel vS. fuel emergency
When it comes to communicating a low fuel situation, words matter; what you say is as important as when you say it. See what controllers have to say in this short video clip (airsafetyinstitute.org/ askatc/fuel). Visit airsafetyinstitute.org/ askatc for additional answers to common ATC questions.

did you know?
AOPA mAkes it eAsy for teens and student pilots to join the world’s largest general aviation association that protects their right to fly and offers the most comprehensive suite of industryleading resources not to be found anywhere else! - AOPA AV8Rs: Do you know a teen age 13 to 18 interested in aviation? Send them to aopa.org/av8rs to enroll in a free AOPA AV8RS membership. - AOPA student Pilot trial membership: Make sure your students get the extra support and resources they need to reach their goal, including six issues of Flight Training— all free for six months! When you enroll them online at ft.aopa.org/ftcfi, AOPA will start or continue your own free Flight Training magazine subscription. A NOVembeR 15, 2012, transition to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) flight plans triggered some confusion with pilots wondering if a major shift in flight-plan filing procedures had taken effect. The date marked the completion of a long-planned transition from the FAA domestic flight plan format to an ICAO format for international and domestic IFR operations using performance-based navigation. General aviation IFR pilots can still use the older FAA domestic flight plan form that remains available through electronic flight planning applications for operations that do not use GPS-based procedures and routes (aopa.org/icaoflightplan).

WAtCH NoW

Let’s wORk tO Reduce the GA fatal accident trend. The FAA established an objective to reduce the GA fatal accident rate by 10 percent over a 10-year period (2009-2018). This chart shows the FAA’s 2013 “not to exceed” number of 255, based on that objective. The yearly metric follows the FAA’s Fiscal Year (October through September) and is broken down per month based upon activity levels. The chart also +4 +10 +19 shows the distribution of accidents by their airworthiness classification and plots FAA Not-to-Exceed, FY2011, FY2012, and the total to date. Unfortunately, the +4, +19, and +10 numbers, respectively show GA fatal accidents to be four over for December, 19 over for the year, and 10 more to date than last year. Teach your students safety and help reverse this trend.
GA Fatal Accident Dashboard
STANDARD EXP – AB EXP – EXHIBITION EXP – FAR EXP – RACING EXP – LIGHT-SPORT S-LSA RESTRICTED – AG RESTRICTED – FOREST RESTRICTED – AERIAL ADV RESTRICTED LIMITED

DISTRIBUTION

47 9 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 2 0

OVER/UNDER FOR DEC

OVER/UNDER FOR YEAR

TOTAL TO DATE vs. FY2012

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Sponsored by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association

PuBlIShEr Bruce Landsberg President, AOPA Foundation

EDITor Machteld A. Smith

ChIEF FlIGhT INSTruCTor Kristine Hartzell

EDITorIAl CoNSulTANT Julie Summers Walker

GrAPhIC DESIGNEr Samantha Duggan

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