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Safety Spotlight

BUT OTHERS WERE, BEGINNING
WITH THE GREATER RISK OF
TEACHING CERTIFICATED PILOTS.
Two-thirds of all fatal accidents during ﬁxedwing instruction came on ﬂights where the
"student" already held a pilot certiﬁcate. Even
more surprising, only 40 percent of the accidents
during advanced training occurred while
working toward some higher certiﬁcate or rating.
Pursuit of logbook endorsements (complex,
high-performance, or tailwheel) accounted for
a few, but the greatest share took place either
during recurrent training-ﬂight reviews,
IPCs, or unspeciﬁed refresher ﬂights-or while
transitioning clients to unfamiliar aircraft.

Veteran CFIs seem to have no difficulty envisioning the dynamics involved. Instructors asked to
provide transition training don't always have signiﬁcant expertise in that speciﬁc make and model.
Instead they (and their students) rely on their presumed ability to monitor the ﬂight, recognize
potential hazards, and intervene in time to avert catastrophe. When the aircraft's not just unfamiliar
but unusual, this can be a bad bet. Likewise, CFIs giving ﬂight reviews or IPCs in aircraft owned by
their students would like to believe those students know their own machines well enough to avoid
dangerous situations-while the owners trust their CFIs to keep them out of trouble. Functional
responsibility for the safety of the ﬂight can slip between the cracks.
Case in point: an ill-fated ﬂight review at the Livingston County, Michigan Airport on June 29, 2011.
The airplane was an amateur-built Thorp T-18 that had received its ﬁrst airworthiness certiﬁcate
nearly 30 years earlier, then been recertiﬁed ﬁve years later with a different engine-propeller
combination. Its current owner, a 43-year-old private pilot, had operated it for about a year and a
half, but not frequently. His logbook showed 43.4 hours in the T-18 and 166.3 hours of total ﬂight
experience. He'd logged no ﬂights since the previous November, but the NTSB noted that the
airplane's Hobbs meter "suggested that the pilot could have ﬂown as many as 6.6 hours in the accident

CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2

CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Vol. 5, Issue 2
Arrival & Approach Briefings
Safety Seminar: Real World Weather
CFI Commentary: Talking to ATC
CFI Tips: Density Altitude - An Experiment
ASI Message: Landing Attitude
Real Pilot Story: Fire in the Cockpit
Safety Spotlight: Into the Unknown
ASI Online: In Review - Storm Week
Safety Quiz: Non-Precision Approach at CEC
CFI Tools: Passenger Safety Briefing
Chief's Corner: Flying is as Safe as You Make It
Pilot Safety Announcement: School Daze
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CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Arrival & Approach Briefings
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 4
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 5
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 6
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 7
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 8
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 9
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Safety Seminar: Real World Weather
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - CFI Commentary: Talking to ATC
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 12
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 13
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 14
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 15
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 16
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - CFI Tips: Density Altitude - An Experiment
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 18
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 19
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - ASI Message: Landing Attitude
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 21
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Real Pilot Story: Fire in the Cockpit
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 23
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Safety Spotlight: Into the Unknown
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 25
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 26
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 27
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - ASI Online: In Review - Storm Week
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 29
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Safety Quiz: Non-Precision Approach at CEC
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 31
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - CFI Tools: Passenger Safety Briefing
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Chief's Corner: Flying is as Safe as You Make It
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 34
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 35
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - 36
CFI-to-CFI Newsletter - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Pilot Safety Announcement: School Daze
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