Safety Hot Spot
Safety Hot Spot: Fuel Management
No one expects or intends to run out of fuel in flight. And yet, in the United States alone, an average of more than three accidents per week result from fuel exhaustion, starvation, or contamination. It can happen to you. Read on to learn more about avoiding these easily preventable accidents.
Great Learning Tools
Articles and other online resources from AOPA, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation, and the FAA to raise your fuel awareness.
- Fuel Awareness Safety Advisor
- Safety Brief: Misfueling
- Safety Pilot articles in AOPA Pilot
- AOPA Pilot articles:
- Flight Training articles:
- Accident reports featured in AOPA ePilot:
- Video Clips
- General Aviation Accident Data: Fuel-Related Accidents in the Last 10 Years
Take a Checkride
Think you’re ready? Take the quiz and test your fuel awareness.
Related Web Sites
- Select fuel-related NASA NSRS Reports
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Updated Monday, June 2, 2008
