FAA Safety Learning Center Courses

The course provides the learner with a different perspective about aviation safety and how every action in aviation is a life-lesson. And there are a lot of life-lessons in aviation safety. This prese

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

There have been numerous final rules, Advisory Circulars, and policy changes. Keeping up with it all can be a challenge. In this presentation we'll review the highlights of some of the most significan

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

In this important discussion on the state of the flight training industry, panelists Karen Kalishek, Jason Blair, and Greg Feith will discuss the impacts of the pilot shortage, training quality, and e

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Philip Mandel will share lessons learned from the scariest two minutes of his life. He says he did more things wrong than right, yet still managed to nurse the Beech Musketeer back to the field and la

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Presenter Catherine Cavagnaro, DPE, CFI-I, ATP, PhD, draws from her experience as an aerobatic flight instructor, FAA designated pilot examiner, monthly contributor for AOPA Pilot Magazine, and mathem

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Space Weather can have numerous effects on safe aircraft operation, aircrews, and the National Airspace System. As the Next Generation Air Traffic Control System shifts to a reliance on more space-bas

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

During this course Catherine Cavagnaro will discuss common ways that pilots run into trouble in the pattern and offer tips both for recovery and for avoiding loss of control situations, to begin with.

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

With more than 30 years and 3,500 hours of backcountry instruction given, Amy Hoover will share her personal insights on the unique challenges pilots face with respect to judgment, decision making, an

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

“What causes the airplane to spin?” Many high-time professional pilots and flight instructor applicants typically answer, “One wing is stalled more than another.” While that's a great answer, how do w

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

This presentation reinforces the concept that flight instructors are really the "Gate Keepers" of general aviation safety. It is critical that all flight instructors inspire the pilots that they instr

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

During this course we will review solutions to the question "Are flight schools sending the message of a well-organized, thoughtful, friendly, and safety oriented program or a message of a disorganize

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The purpose of this session is to discuss how perception versus reality could influence a pilot's weather-related decision-making. We will discuss factors that affect pilot perception, influences of p

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stall/spin and high AOA accidents are not the only kind of accident turning base to final. Low Speed Spirals – essentially, botched base to final steep turns – may be more common than stall/spin as a

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

“Caution Helicopter Wake Turbulence:” This is something you either have never heard or very seldom. Several accidents have occurred as a result of helicopter wake turbulence to fixed wing aircraft. Th

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

For many of us, a quick briefing followed by a couple spins in a Skyhawk constitutes the whole of our 14 CFR 61.183 spin training. While that training is compliant (maybe), how much do we really know

• FAA Safety Learning Center
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course