AVI 116 - Flight Safety

Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course introduces practical safety material, organizations and equipment necessary to conduct safe daily flight operations. All factors including weather, maintenance, equipment and human factors will be examined with particular emphasis on critical decision making under stress conditions. Proper decision making will be based on knowledge of formal weather briefing techniques flight plan filing, search and rescue methods, post crash survival, aircraft maintenance programs, accident /incident report forms, airport rescue and fire fighting, the role of the NTSB flight safety organizations and modern hardware.
Prerequisite(s): AVI 104 Permission of the department