Plus One Flyers - Safety Program
What makes a safe pilot? Safety is an attitude, a mindset and a way of life. Aviation is an inherently risky activity involving a variety of internal and external components. Statistics show that an increase in frequency of incidents and accidents will follow with an increase in severity of incidents and accidents. It is incumbent upon us as pilots, instructors, owners and board members to help facilitate a safe-flying club. The goal of the safety program is education and transparency. Similar to the Safety Management System concept, the Plus One Flyers Safety Program is modeled after this industry-accepted concept.
SMS (Safety Management System) is a generalized term used in many industries as a systematic approach to managing safety. The FAA has adopted a clear idea of SMS broken down into four functional components. The FAA describes SMS this way:
“The essential idea of any SMS — be it a product/service provider’s SMS or the SMS of the regulator responsible for safety oversight — is to provide for a systematic approach to achieving acceptable levels of safety risk. SMS is comprised of four functional components, including an intangible, but always critical, aspect called safety culture.”
The four components of a successful SMS Implementation include Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance and Safety Promotion. The Plus One Flyers “SAFER Pilot” program encompasses all of these components. SAFER is an acronym for Safe Attitudes to Facilitate Elimination of Risk which sums up the overall goal of our program.
The SAFER Pilot Program is the Plus One Flyers flagship model for managing a member’s safety and flight records during their membership in the Club. The SAFER Pilot Program includes several components, which are all part of the adoption of a Safety Management System.
We have grouped these new programs into one of the four components of the SMS.
- Safety Policy
- Safety Risk Management
- Anonymous Safety Reports
- CFI Program
- Quarterly Reporting and transparency
- Safety Assurance
- Standardized Checkouts
- Learning Management System (Coming Soon)
- Safety Promotion
Thanks for being part of the best club in the nation. Take a look at some safety-related articles below, including incident archives and statistics.
Shane Terpstra, Director of Safety
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Safety Archives
Return Trip
We arrived in Milwaukee (MKE) around 1400 local, waiting for our bags that had to be checked in order to bring tools and survival-related items that the TSA would frown upon. After looking around for the Uber line, we finally found our driver and were on our way to Waukesha (UES), about 30 minutes away. I’m sure your first question is, why would anyone willingly fly to Wisconsin? And your second question is probably, where is Wisconsin? For many San Diego pilots that spend the majority of their time flying around California, it can be difficult to think about flying outside the SoCal bubble.
Fire Season is here!
If you have lived here long enough you have probably seen active brush fires in our region.
Forget the Checklist Already!
I recently sat in on the debrief from one of my student’s check rides. The Designated Examiner had overall positive things to say about the check ride, although there was a question of judgement for using me as her instructor.
