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• Risk Management Handbookp. 2-4
  Chapter 2: Personal Minimums › Personal Minimums › Step 5—Adjust for Specific Conditions

  Step 4—Assemble and Evaluate Combining all these numbers results in a baseline personal minimums table as shown in Figure 2-8. Figure 2-8. Sample baseline personal minimums. Step 5—Adjust for Specific Conditions Any flight a pilot makes ... involves an infinite combination of pilot skill, experience, conditions, and proficiency. Aircraft equipment and performance, environmental conditions, and external influences vary considerably. Both individually and in combination, these factors can compress or expand the safety buffer provided by baseline personal…

• Risk Management Handbookp. 2-3
  Chapter 2: Personal Minimums › Personal Minimums › Step 3—Consider Other Conditions

  Figure 2-5. Figure 2-5. Experience and comfort level assessment for combined VFR and IFR. Step 3—Consider Other Conditions Pilots should also have personal minimums for wind and turbulence and record the most challenging wind conditions comfortably experienced ... shown in Figure 2-6, a pilot may record these values for category and class, or for a specific aircraft. Figure 2-6. A sample pilot experience and comfort level assessment for wind and turbulence. In addition to winds, “comfort…

• Risk Management Handbookp. 5-1
  Chapter 5: Mitigating Risk › Preflight Risk Mitigation Strategies › Mitigating Aircraft Risks

  having a doubt about risk mitigation, a pilot should consider the value of mitigation against the potential cost of property damage and loss of life. A saying goes, safety costs a lot less than an accident. In fact, risk mitigation ... hazards. Nevertheless, there are a few general strategies that are effective for each area on the PAVE checklist. Pilot, aircraft, and external pressure risks respond well to early, direct action. On the other hand, the scope of many environmental hazards…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 14-26
  Chapter 14: Airport Operations › Air Traffic Control (ATC) Services › Radar Traffic Advisories

  traffic is referenced by azimuth from the aircraft in terms of the 12-hour clock. Also, distance in nautical miles, direction in which the target is moving, and type and altitude of the aircraft, if known, are given. An example ... Traffic 10 o’clock 5 miles east bound, Cessna 152, 3,000 feet.” The pilot should note that traffic position is based on the aircraft track and that wind correction can affect the clock position at which a pilot locates…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 14-20
  Chapter 14: Airport Operations › Wind Direction Indicators

  Wind Direction Indicators It is important for a pilot to know the direction of the wind. At facilities with an operating control tower, this information is provided by ATC. Information may also be provided by FSS personnel either located ... receive and broadcast on this frequency. When none of these services is available, it is possible to determine wind direction and runway in use by visual wind indicators. A pilot should check these wind indicators even when information is provided…

• 14 CFR Part 61 — Certification: Pilots, Flight Instructors, and Ground InstructorsOpen
  14 CFR § 61.73 Military pilots or former military pilots: Special rules.

  Before the date of the application, passed an official U.S. military pilot and instrument proficiency check in a military aircraft of the kind of aircraft category, class, or type, if class or type of aircraft is applicable, for the ratings ... date of the application, logged 10 hours of pilot time as a military pilot in a U.S. military aircraft of the kind of category, class, and type of aircraft, if a class rating or type rating is applicable…