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Agricultural Edition
Flying in the Wire Environment – Agricultural Edition is designed for rotary and fixed-wing pilots involved in aerial application and similar operations. This edition contains an extended Single-Pilot CRM section and tips and strategies to prevent wirestrikes in agricultural operations.
Summary of course contents (slight changes may occur due to audience needs):
- Sector specific accident statistics
- Basic awarenesses that aerial application pilots must have and maintain while operating in the wire and obstruction environment
- How to identify and manage the hazards associated with aerial application work
- Understanding your exposure to the wire and obstruction environment
- Single Pilot Crew Resource Management:
- How to scan in the wire environment effectively
- Short term memory, and strategies for managing it
- Hazardous attitudes, including complacency and invulnerability
- Where the wire and obstruction environment really is
- Dynamics of the wire environments
- Traps waiting for agricultural aircraft
- Visibility engineering: what you can and cannot see and why
- How to forecast the presence of wire long before you can actually see it
- Illusions while operating in the wire environment: what causes them and how to manage them
- The high wire reconnaissance: how it differs from the normal recon
- Additional dangers during low-level operations
- How useful are today’s obstruction marking schemes
COURSE CATALOG:
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Flying in the Wire & Obstruction Environment (FIWOE)
Foundational course for all audiences that other more specialized editions are built upon.
Online FIWOE & CRM Edition
Designed for all audiences and as a summary course for recurrent students.
Specialized FIWOE Editions:
Agriculture Edition
Aerial Firefighting Edition
Aerial Line Work Edition
Utility Flight Ops Edition
EMS edition
Lineman / Trim CRM Edition
Low Level CRM Edition
