Sat, Dec 15, 2007
Fuel Safety PSAs Confront Cause Of Many Accidents
The AOPA Air Safety Foundation is
taking a humorous and edgy approach to help educate pilots about
fuel management by producing Pilot Safety Announcements (PSAs) that
can be viewed by all pilots online.
"Flying is as safe as you choose to make it and fuel management
accidents should be among the simplest to remedy," said Bruce
Landsberg, executive director of the AOPA Air Safety Foundation.
"But nearly three accidents happen each week because of fuel
exhaustion or starvation. It’s not a record we should be
proud of."
One of the PSA videos asks the question: What if the airlines
handled fuel management the way some general aviation pilots do?
The PSA shows an airline flight preparing to depart to Hawaii and
the captain advising passengers that they might have enough fuel
for the entire flight.
Another pokes fun at the idea every pilot has an excuse for
running out of fuel, and uses a pilot’s concern for the
environment and unconventional use of a hybrid to illustrate the
point.
The Air Safety Foundation is focusing on the issue because of
the relatively high frequency of accidents that should be totally
preventable.
The Foundation is expanding its efforts by using this new media
to complement the several approaches to educating the pilot
community that they have used in the past, and continue to use. The
Air Safety Foundation is now distributing the video PSAs to get the
message to pilots without lecturing.
Pilots will be able to view the 30-45 second PSAs on the AOPA
Air Safety Foundation website, and at safety seminars to reach all
the pilots who are sure they won’t be the next one to run out
of fuel. The Web site also offers additional fuel management
resources such as a safety advisor and safety brief.
The AOPA Air Safety Foundation, the world’s largest
non-profit general aviation safety organization, was founded in
1950 solely to help general aviation pilots improve flight safety.
Since that time, the general aviation total accident rate has
dropped by more than 90 percent despite a large increase in general
aviation flight hours. ASF produces live seminars, online
interactive courses, training DVDs, written Safety Advisors and
other aviation safety materials for free distribution to all
general aviation pilots.
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