Safety Links
The Experimenter! EAA's Homebuilders e-Newsletter Click Here to sign up
FAA on GA operations and icing. Click Here to download a pdf.

The July/August 2010 issue of FAA Safety Briefing focuses on aviation weather and its critical effect on safe general aviation (GA) flying. Click here to download.

Pilot Tips
Read about the importance of a sterile cockpit. Click here.

Read about fighting pilot fatigue. Click here.

Read about wake turbulance. Click here.

CALLBACK

Read some very good articles on flight safety.
Click for the September 2011 issue
Click here to choose from past issues

Small Cost, Big Benefit
Interested in making your aircraft safer in case of an accident? You might get some good ideas by reading the latest issue of FAA Safety Briefing. In her article, "Small Cost, Big Benefit: A Look at Lifesaving Aircraft Safety Enhancements," FAA aerospace engineer Della Swartz offers a variety of improvements that can have a positive effect on your safety and well-being without an undue strain on the wallet. Among the enhancements described are inflatable restraints, or air bags, whose safety benefits NTSB recently highlighted. According to Swartz, inflatable restraint kits are available for about $1,000 per seat plus the cost of installation. The kit includes a shoulder harness, another inexpensive yet key life-saving device. For more on how to outfit your aircraft with low-cost and high-value safety enhancements, see the article on page 18 of the Jan/Feb 2011 FAA Safety Briefing. Click on this link.

Read NASA's safety reporting articles
Red NASA's January 2010 "Callback" articles. Click on this link.

LOBO board has written and established a Code of Conduct
Please download and read. The board has agreed to adopt a Model Code of Conduct based on the original Aviators' Model Code of Conduct.

A Little Frost Won't Hurt...Or Will It?
Download and read this interesting article on ice and its effect on aircraft
http://www.faa.gov/news/aviation_news/2009/media/NovDec2009OnThinIce.pdf

Two approaches one too many?
Download and read this interesting article on minimums and going missed
http://www.aopa.org/asf/epilot_acc/sea08fa078.html?WT.mc_id=100305epilot&WT.mc_sect=sap

Lancair Service Bulletins
Click here for a link to the list of service bulletins for all Lanciar models

Lancair Documents to Promote Safety
Click on the links below for various docs related to saftey. If you have one you'd like to share, e-mail our webmaster.

• Lancair 360 checklist (word doc)
• Legacy maintenance clinic booklet and conditional inspection checklist (pdf)

Additional articles pertaining to safety
An article from the current issue of "Safety Wire", Volume 3 Issue 2, April 2009, which is a newsletter provided to EAA Technical Counselors and Flight Advisors. Download part one. Download part two.

Check back for more information and if you have a link you'd like to share e-mail Don Barnes