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TRAINING & SAFETY

Decision making

Every pilot knows that operating the machinery is the easiest part of flying. It’s how we anticipate, evaluate, and choose to mitigate the inevitable risks that separate good pilots from poor ones—and largely determines which become the subject of NTSB accident reports.

Every year, more than 70 percent of all GA accidents are the consequence of something the pilot chose to do or failed to avoid.

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