Summary of course contents (slight changes may occur due to audience needs):

• Basic awarenesses that aerial firefighting pilots must have and maintain while operating in the wire and obstruction environment
• How to identify and manage the obstruction hazards associated with aerial firefighting work
• Understanding your exposure to the wire and obstruction environment
• Single Pilot Crew Resource Management:
• Low level dual 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
• 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

Online FIWOE & CRM Edition

Designed for all audiences and as a summary course for recurrent students.

Specialized FIWOE Editions: