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Aerial Line Work Edition
Flying in the Wire & Obstruction Environment – Aerial Linework Edition is designed for Helicopter pilots and linemen involved in aerial linework operations. This edition contains a CRM section that is designed to extend beyond the cockpit and utilize the skills and abilities of non-pilot crewmembers on the platform, longline or ground to prevent Wirestrike and similar accidents in aerial linework operations.
Summary of course contents (slight changes may occur due to audience needs):
- Sector specific accident statistics
- Basic awarenesses that low-level flight crews must have and maintain while operating in the wire and obstruction environment
- How to identify the hazards associated with aerial line work
- Understanding your exposure to the wire and obstruction environment
- Crew Resource Management: what the pilot and crewmembers need to do in order to act together as a team in the wire and obstruction environment
- Why the crewmember is so important regarding safety during low-level operations
- How to scan in the wire environment effectively
- The responsibilities of each crew member
- 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 untrained low-level flight crews
- Visibility engineering: what you can and cannot see and why
- How flight crews can forecast the presence of wire long before they can actually see it
- Illusions while operating in the wire environment: what causes them and how to manage them
- How to prevent rotor strikes when hovering near a wire or obstruction
- 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
