Flying in the Wire and Obstruction Environment Course
Wednesday July 28th 2010
Presented by:
Utilities Aviation Specialists Inc. President Bob Feerst
The “Flying in the Wire and Obstruction Environment” course is a multi-media seminar acclaimed by professional aeroplane and helicopter operators worldwide. It gives low-level flight crews the essential skills needed to operate safely an aircraft in wire and obstruction environments.
A brief overview of the topics covered during the course is as follows:
· The basic awareness low-level flight crews must have and maintain while operating in the wire and obstruction environment
· How to identify the hazards associated with wire and obstruction accidents
· Understand your exposure to the wire and obstruction environment
· Crew resource management
· What the pilot and crewmembers need to do in order to act together as a team in the wire and obstruction environment
· Why the crewmember is so important regarding safety during low-level operations
· The responsibilities of each crewmember
· In-flight communications about wire and obstructions
· Where the wire and obstruction environment really is
· Dynamics of the wire environments
· Traps waiting for untrained low-level flight crews
· Visibility engineering
· What you can and can’t see and why
· How flight crews can forecast the presence of wire long before they can actually see it
· Illusions while operating in the wire environment
· What causes them?
· How to manage them
· The high wire reconnaissance
· How is it different from the normal recon?
· Additional dangers during low-level operations
· How useful are today’s obstruction marking schemes?
See the full programme here
