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1
Safety Through Information
  • Getting the information you need to fly safely
    even when youre in new territory

By Grant McHerron
2
Youve all heard these, right?
  • Praemonitus, praemunitus
  • (Fore-warned is Forearmed)
  •  
  • Be prepared  
  • Baden-Powell the Boy Scouts
  •  
  • Knowledge is Power
  • Sir Francis Bacon
  • Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's
    ignorance.
  • Confucius
  • No Campaign plan survives first contact with the
    enemy
  • Carl von Clausewitz
  •  
  • Planning is everything, the plan is nothing
  • Dwight Eisenhower

3
Pilots Have Known This For Almost 100 Years
  • "The success or otherwise of the airway is in
    the hands of the people who do the work the
    pilots. In their hands rests everything. No man
    can be born a fully-trained pilot no pilot can
    ever be fully trained. All pilots should ever be
    learning, ever striving to increase their own
    efficiency. Efficiency begets confidence, and
    thus safety. So aim at being safe"

Captain Travis W. Shortridge "Blind Bad Weather
Flying" Slipstream Magazine, 1930 (pilot of the
ill-fated Southern Cloud)
4
Legally, you must be prepared!
  • CAO 95.54 4.2                CAR 233             
          CAR 239
  • The pilot in command (that's you) has to
  •  
  • Plan the flight for the route to be followed and
    any aerodromes to be used (and any alternates),
    covering
  • Current weather reports forecasts
  • Airways facilities available their conditions
  • Conditions of any aerodromes their suitability
    to your aircraft
  • Air Traffic Control rules procedures pertaining
    to the flight
  • Carry (with easy access to) the information you
    need during the flight, including
  • Maps covering the proposed area of operation
    showing aerodromes, controlled airspace,
    prohibited, restricted and danger areas along the
    likely flight path
  • Any other information instructions required

5
Today may not be like Yesterday
  • You must have current information available to
    you
  •  
  • You need this information in your home area as
    well as when you go to a new area
  •  
  • Never assume you know what's going on because you
    flew here yesterday - always look for what's
    changed, new info, etc

6
What's stopping you?
  • "Who's got the time? The weather is right now!"
  •  
  • "I don't need the latest maps - my parts don't
    really change."
  •  
  • "I just fly where I know and don't go elsewhere."
  • "It's too hard to stay up to date."
  • "It's not like I'm flying at an airport and can
    just drop by the pilot's shop."
  • "We're recreational fly under their radar."

7
Sources of Knowledge
  • Government Sources
  • ERSA, AIP, VFR Guide
  • NOTAMs
  • Maps
  • VNC, VTC, ERC Low,TAC, PCA
  • Geoscience,LIC NSW, VICMAP, etc
  •  
  • BoM
  •  TAFs, METARS, etc
  • ABF
  • Pilot Training Manual, Operations Manual
  • Website

8
Save the Trees!
  • ERSA, AIP, etc
  • http//www.airservices.gov.au/flying/default.asp
  •  
  • CASR, CAR, CAO, etc
  • http//casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMSSTANDARDp
    cPC_90902 
  •  
  • Briefing Services
  • http//www.airservicesaustralia.com/brief/
  • http//www.airservicesaustralia.com/NOTAMMAPS/INDE
    X.ASP 
  • http//www.airservices.gov.au/Brief/areabrf.asp
  •  
  • TAFs, METARs NOTAMs
  • http//reg.bom.gov.au/reguser/by_prod/aviation/
  • http//www.airservices.gov.au/brief/html.asp?/cgi-
    bin/avreq?area30
  •  
  • ABF
  • http//abf.net.au/links.htm 
  • http//www.abf.net.au/SZ.htm
  •  

9
It's all Geek to me!
  • How to read a TAF
  • AIP GEN 3.5 - 25
  • http//www.canberragliding.org/jforum/posts/list/7
    3.page
  •  
  • Decoding NOTAMs
  • http//www.flyingineurope.be/notam_decode.htm 
  • Understanding NOTAMs - Part 1 Part 2
  • http//bathursted.ccnb.nb.ca/vatcan/fir/moncton/We
    eklyTopics/Archives/20040404/CurrentTopic.html 
  • http//bathursted.ccnb.nb.ca/vatcan/fir/moncton/We
    eklyTopics/Archives/20040411/CurrentTopic.html
  •  
  • VFR Guide
  • http//www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMSSTANDAR
    DpcPC_90008
  • Airspace Regulations Summary
  • http//www.recreationalflying.net/tutorials/naviga
    tion/airspace.html

10
Flying Somewhere New?
  • Look for charts (aviation topographical) -
    start assessing airspace boundaires, what
    airports/airstrips/ALAs are in the area, what
    Area Forecast zone is it in
  •  
  • Go to the ABF site and start checking for PZs,
    SZs Hazards
  •  
  • Use the ABF member directory to find people in
    the area and CALL THEM to learn which land
    holders can be relied on for launch/landing plus
    any transient or seasonal problems that may not
    be on the ABF site (crops being sown/harvested,
    livestock, etc)
  •  
  • Check ERSA entries for all airports in the area
  • Start building up a mental image of the 3D
    picture of the space you'll be flying in
    (landscape, boundaries, hazards, etc) and do some
    "what if" thinking of how you'd fly for various
    wind conditions - what you'd watch out for, etc.
  •  
  • Mark up your maps reference cards (cheat
    sheets) with information so it's easy to find all
    you need when you're in the air

11
A Few Days Before
  • Watch the weather forecasts, synoptic charts
    trends
  • Check for NOTAMs
  •  
  • Check ABF site again and give balloonists with
    local knowledge a call

12
Let's go fly near Mildura
  • Check out the ABF site for info about the area
  •  
  • Look at the Planning Chart of Australia - find
    it's in area 30 on WAC 3458
  •  
  • Get the maps for the area (WAC, ERC LOW 2,
    VICMAP topographicals - Meringur Merrinee)
  •  
  • Look up Mildura in the ERSA to get code (YMIA),
    frequencies notes
  •  
  • Look up AirServices web site for TAF/METAR and
    NOTAM info
  •  
  • Start reading/viewing thinking
  • Get ABF member directory and start finding people
    in Mildura to call

13
Here's a TAF/METAR
  • MILDURA (YMIA)
  • RAIM GPS RAIM PREDICTION 151401
  • YMIA
  • TSO-C129 (AND EQUIVALENT)
  • FAULT DETECTION
  • NO GPS RAIM FD OUTAGES FOR NPA
  • TSO-C146A (AND EQUIVALENT)
  • FAULT DETECTION
  • NO GPS RAIM FD OUTAGES FOR NPA
  • FAULT DETECTION AND EXCLUSION
  • 10160308 TIL 10160337
  • 10161007 TIL 10161016
  • 10161036 TIL 10161053
  • 10170306 TIL 10170333
  • 10171003 TIL 10171011
  • 10171032 TIL 10171049
  • 10180305 TIL 10180329
  • 10180959 TIL 10181007

14
Here's some NOTAMS
  • MILDURA (YMIA)

  • C0048/09
  • RWY 18/36 DECLARED DISTANCE CHANGES
  • RWY ASDA
  • 18 1139
  • 36 1139
  • FROM 09 140455 TO PERM

  • C0022/10
  • RWY DECLARED DIST AND GRADIENT CHANGES
  • RWY TODA
  • 09 1950(2.18)
  • 27 1980(1.62)
  • RWY 09/27 TRANSITION SFC INFRINGED.
  • 18 1199(2.36)
  • 36 1199(2.39)

15
Be Willing to help
  • Provide information to the ABF so the website can
    be updated
  • PZs, SZs, hazards, etc
  • Help make that section of the site something of
    benefit to all of us
  •  
  • Be available for calls from other balloonatics
    who are going to fly in your area
  •  
  • Online forums (downwind.com.au? Aunty Monkey?)
  •  
  • Social experiences with other pilots ("Hangar
    flying")

16
It's all about Airmanship
  • Somehow airmanship, which is not just flying,
    but is everything flying means, is a very
    neglected subject If only young pilots would
    forget that a joy stick is in many ways only a
    secondary consideration, that circuits and
    landings do not make a pilot, that they never
    will learn all that the air can teach them, and
    that advice from old hands should never be
    disregarded well, lots of young pilots would
    still be pilots!

Captain Travis W. Shortridge "Blind Bad Weather
Flying" Slipstream Magazine, 1930 (pilot of the
ill-fated Southern Cloud)
17
Thanks for making it to the end
  • Grant McHerron
  •  
  • mcherron_at_gmail.com
  •  
  • 0422 914 949
  • www.flymefriendly.com
  • www.planecrazydownunder.com
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