AOPA Air Safety Foundation

Air Safety Foundation home page gets new look

The AOPA Air Safety Foundation home page is your one-stop shop for some of the most innovative safety education tools available. And now we've redesigned the home page to make it easier for you to locate what you need, whether it's an online course or a schedule of upcoming popular safety seminars in your area.

New browser bars let you search by safety program or topic, ensuring you'll get to your safety resource as quickly as possible. The new design features the foundation's newest interactive course, SkySpotter: Pireps Made Easy, as well as featured programs like our newest live seminar, "Say It Right!," and the Safety Hot Spot on spring preflight.

'Say It Right!' proves correct approach for pilots

"All traffic in the area, please advise." "N8121K is taking the active." If you're like many pilots, these are at the top of your pet-peeve list of bad radio calls.

That's probably one reason why the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's safety seminar "Say It Right! Radio Comm in Today's Airspace" is drawing a record number of pilots nationwide. The seminar on February 28 in Portland, Oregon, drew an all-time high: 511. Practical communication tips >>...

(March 5, 2007)

Icing season in full swing

Winter flying brings the potential for encountering icing conditions in flight. Do you know how to anticipate areas of probable icing? Is your aircraft's anti-icing equipment enough to provide safe flight through ice-laden air? How can you know if your aircraft is accumulating ice on areas you can't see—like the propeller or the tail? The AOPA Air Safety Foundation's Safety Advisor, Aircraft Icing, discusses icing and provides tips on how to avoid this potentially deadly foe.

(February 19, 2007)

Become a SkySpotter

One of the most useful pieces of weather information is a pilot report (pirep), yet these reports are all too rare. Pireps provide critical weather information such as cloud layers and turbulence that cannot be accurately obtained from other sources. They also fill in the gaps between ground-based weather reporting stations. Check out the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's online course, SkySpotter: Pireps Made Easy, to learn how you can request, use, and give these valuable weather reports.

(February 19, 2007)

A host of Web resources to make you a safer pilot

Dedicated to making general aviation flying easier and safer, the AOPA Air Safety Foundation offers a number of safety education resources free of charge to all pilots. Here are some helpful Web links: Learn more in less time with interactive online courses; test your knowledge with instantly scored quizzes; search the accident database; check the schedule for safety seminars coming to your area; and print publications from the library. After you've had a chance to review these popular resources, show your support for the foundation by donating.

(January 12, 2007)

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Updated Monday, March 20, 2006 9:20:16 AM