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  • Chapter 3: Identifying Hazards & Associated Risks › Hazard Combinations › Airspace, Air Traffic Control, and Other Aircraft

    risk is generally low, and pilots should use risk assessment and management tools to mitigate any unacceptable risk before embarking on a flight…

  • Chapter 1: Risk Management and Single-Pilot Resource Management › SRM and the 5P Check › The Passengers

    Passengers can also be pilots. If no one is designated as pilot in command (PIC) and unplanned circumstances arise, the decision-making styles of several self-confident pilots may conflict. Pilots also need to understand that non-pilots ... risk elimination. While a pilot may feel comfortable with the risk present in a night IFR flight, the passengers may not. A pilot employing SRM should ensure the passengers are involved in the decision-making and given tasks and duties…

  • Chapter 14: Airport Operations

    general aviation airports, as shown below: • Commercial Service Airports—publicly owned airports that have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each calendar year and receive scheduled passenger service. Passenger boardings refer to revenue passenger boardings on an aircraft in service ... commerce whether or not in scheduled service. The definition also includes passengers who continue on an aircraft in international flight that stops at an airport in any of the 50 States for a non-traffic purpose, such as refueling…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › The Decision-Making Process › The Passengers

    Passengers can also be pilots. If no one is designated as pilot in command (PIC) and unplanned circumstances arise, the decision-making styles of several self-confident pilots may come into conflict. Pilots also need to understand that non-pilots ... risk elimination. While a pilot may feel comfortable with the risk present in a night IFR flight, the passengers may not. A pilot employing SRM should ensure the passengers are involved in the decision-making and given tasks and duties…

  • Chapter 10. Helicopter Operations › Section 2. Special Operations › 10-2-1. Offshore Helicopter Operations

    electrical storms (thunderstorms) are present within 10 nautical miles. Lightning can travel great distances beyond the actual thunderstorm. (3) Passengers disembark the helicopter and move to a safe location prior to HRR operations. When the pilot-in-command deems ... remain onboard, passengers should be briefed on the evacuation route to follow to clear the area. (4) Passengers not board or disembark during HRR operations nor should cargo be loaded or unloaded. (5) Only designated personnel, trained in HRR operations…

  • Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Risk Management › Using the 3P Model to Form Good Safety Habits

    feet) and that several hundred pounds of fuel have been burned off en route. Furthermore, once the passengers have disembarked, more power will be available for departure. The pilot estimates that the highest obstacles along the approach path…