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Safety Seminars
FREE MONTHLY AVIATION SEMINAR SERIES
2022
| WHEN: | 2nd Saturday of each month via Zoom |
| TIME (EST): | 8:30 am Continental Breakfast (temporarily suspended) |
| 9:00 am -10:30 am Seminar, Questions, Hangar Talk | |
| WHERE: | Mid Island Air Service, Inc. • LI MacArthur Airport
We now broadcast all seminars as a Live Webinar via the FAA Webinars system |
| PROMOTOR: | FAA FAASTeam • SAFETY WINGS PROGRAM • www.faasafety.gov |
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JAN 8, 2022
ADM and the Chain of Events
- ADM is ALWAYS at play and drives your every action!
- Do you have the information you need to make the best decisions?
- How do you respond to changing circumstances & are you able to identify threats and mitigate the risks?
- Chain of events or error chain – safety concern & precautions
- How many contributing factors lead to accidents rather than 1 single event
- Human factor related vs. mechanic failure w aircraft – account for 3:1 accidents
Vincent Aprea – Base Aviation Manager for SkyHealth air medical transport at ISP, EMS line pilot, COMM, ATP [helo], CFI, AGI, EMT, Aircraft Rescue, prior NYPD pilot
Ken Solosky – Retired Chief Pilot NYPD & Newark Police, ATP, FW/H, CFI.H, AGI, IGI
FEB 12, 2022
Airborne Medical Emergencies; How to act as the PIC
- Are you prepared and would you know what to do in a medical emergency?
- Foremost, recognizing that you have an in-air medical emergency.
- Declaring an emergency and getting on the ground as quickly as possible.
- Responding and treating life threatening medical emergencies before EMS arrives
- Steps you should take while waiting for EMS.
- What first aid equipment should you carry on-board your aircraft
Ken Solosky – Retired Chief Pilot NYPD & Newark Police, ATP, FW/H, CFI.H, AGI, IGI
MAR 12, 2022
AOPA – Rusty Pilot Seminar
- Life may have gotten in the way, but the dream of flight can be yours again
- Returning to the skies is not as difficult as most rusty pilots think
- Understand what’s changed in aviation since you last took the controls
- Brush up on your aviation knowledge
- The program is developed by AOPA in partnership with local flight training providers
- How you can get back in the air and a part of the general aviation community
- Get ground school signoff towards a flight review [BFR]
Donnie MacKay – Senior Manager, Rusty Pilots & Operations, You Can Fly, AOPA Foundation, Inc
Rebecca Boone – CFI part of the Rusty Pilots team
APR 9, 2022
AIRLINE RECURRENT TRAINING – And what GA can, and should, learn from similar requirements
- Recurrent training in the airlines from a Check Airman perspective
- Why GA should listen and go through more frequent training even if not a requirement
- One airlines training program, how developed, administered, and evolved over time
- How GA pilots can benefit from some simple suggestions rooted in it
Adam Rosenberg, FAA DPE, CFI, Check Pilot, Airline Captain
MAY 14, 2022
PRECISION LANDINGS
- It is possible for a bad landing from a good approach,
but impossible to make a good landing from a bad approach.
- 5 steps: speed/height, look outside, end of runway, flare, power
- Making stabilized approaches: speed, decent, trim, touchdown spot, flare
- How to know where to look when you flare
- Q&A, and look for possible Spot Landing contest in the Fall
David Windmiller – A US Unlimited Team Aerobatic Pilot, ATP, MEI, CFI, Light Sport
to Business Jet, Turbo Prop, Helo, CFI Rotorcraft, Glider, Land/Sea, Test Pilot, 20K+ hrs
JUN 11, 2022
LEGAL CHECKLISTS – Is All Your Paperwork in Order
- Pilot and Instructor certificates and logbook requirements – FAR 61.56
- Recent experience requirements & Instrument Proficiency
- Training and Instructor endorsements, specials and logbook requirements
- NOTAMS are regulatory and binding
- A&P authorizations/requirements pilots need to know
Kathy Yodice – PVT, IFR, Managing partner Yodice Associates Potomac MD, representing aviation legal interest over 30 years, served on AOPA’s Board of Aviation Medical Advisors, . . .
rev: 2/28/2022