- EASA Rotorcraft and VTOL Safety Site
- United Kingdom’s Information for Organisations Regarding Safety Management Systems
- EASA’s Maintenance Flight Check Manual
- EASA’s Maintenance Flight Check Risk Assessment
- AC 120-82, Flight Operational Quality Assurance
- Advisory Circular 120-92, Introduction to Safety Management Systems for Air Operators
- For Helicopter Flight Instructors – Training Guide
- Helicopter Firefighting Guide
- Helicopter Flying Handbook
- Helicopter Instructor’s Handbook
- National Wildfire standards for Helicopter Operations Guide
- Online Resources for Rotorcraft Pilots
Safety Toolbox
CAA Publications
FDM
- CAA PAPER 2002/02, Final Report on the Helicopter Operations Monitoring Programme (HOMP) Trial
- CAA PAPER 2004/12 Final Report on the Follow-on Activities to the HOMP Trial
- CAP 731 Approval, Operational Serviceability and Readout of Flight Data Recorder Systems
- CAP 739, Flight Data Monitoring
- Flight Data Monitoring, Risk, and Protecting Assets
- Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA)/ Helicopter Flight; Data Monitoring (HFDM) Program; Sample Implementation and Operations Plan
- General Aviation Flight Data Monitoring; Fly with Intelligence – Best Practices to Improve the Safety and Efficiency of Flight Operations
- Helicopter Flight Analysis Profile Project (HFAP
- Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring Toolkits
- Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring Toolkits (Spanish)
- Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring-The Basics
- Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring-Workshop
- Helicopter Operations Monitoring Programme (HOMP)
- HFDM Example Crew Contact Email
- HFDM Example Pilot Agreement
- HFDM Generic Event Set
- Intro to Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring
- Investigation of the technical feasibility and safety benefit of a light aeroplane operational Flight Data Monitoring system.
Recommended Practices
- Preflight Risk Assessment for Student Flights-Recommended Practices
- Improving survivability – Crash Resistant Fuel Systems, Seats and Structure
- 12 Concerns for Helicopters Flying Over Mountains and Hilly Terrain
- 12 Rules to Live by for Your Pre-Flight Helicopter Inspection
- 3 Checklists That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Have
- 4 Documents That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Read
- 5 Approaches That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Embrace
- 5 Attitudes That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Reject
- 5 Vitally Important Safety Actions for Helicopter Pilots
- 5 Ways to Manage an Inflight Helicopter Crisis
- 7 Decision-Making Tips That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Know
- 7 Initiatives That Every Helicopter Operator and Pilot Need to Tackle
- 7 Preflight Tips That Every Helicopter Pilot and Operator Should Know
- 7 Safety Tips That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Follow
- 8 Golden Rules About Weather and Helicopter Flights
- Automation and Flight Path Management
- Autorotations: Reality Exposed
- CFIT Prevention with HTAWS
- Clear Solutions to a Murky Problem
- Conquer Hazards, Tame Risks
- Conquering Hazards and Risks
- Defensive Strategy for Helicopter Pilots
- Detection and Management of Risk Level Changes During Flight by Pilots and Non Flying Crew
- Do … or Do Not. There is No Try.
- EHEST Pre-departure Risk Assessment Checklist
- EHEST Single Pilot Decision Making
- Fatal Distraction: How Easily Pilot Attention is Lured Away
- Five Hazardous Attitudes for Helicopter Pilots to Recognize
- Follow the Four “C’s”: Helicopter Pilots in Inadvertent IMC Situations
- Helicopter Accidents During Night Operations
- Helicopter Airmanship
- Helicopter Companions
- Helicopter Preflight, Final Walk Around and Postflight Inspection
- Helicopter Safety Considerations
- Helicopter Safety Considerations (Russian)
- Helicopter Safety Considerations (Spanish)
- Helicopter Safety Pledge
- Helicopter Safety Starts in the Hangar
- Hot Blooded, but Cold Feet
- How Helicopter Accident Reports Can Save Lives
- How Helicopter Pilots Die
- Human Factors and EMS Helicopter Operations
- Loss of Control Inflight, Prevention & Mitigation Challenges
- Off Airfield Land Site Operations
- One Strike, You’re Out”
- Over The Counter Medication
- Precautionary Landings
- Risk Management in Training
- Safety in Number: Personal Minimums”
- Setting the Right Example
- Simulation Training for Aviation Decision Making
- Single Pilot Decision Making
- Spatial Disorientation Induced by a Degraded Visual Environment
- Techniques for Helicopter Operations in Hilly or Mountainous Terrain
- Technologies to Improve Helicopter Accident Investigation
- The Challenges of Night Flight.
- The Principles of Threat and Error Management (TEM) for Helicopter Pilots and Instructors
- The Top 10 Ways You Can Prevent Helicopter Accidents
- Turning the Blades – the New EASA Rotorcraft Roadmap
- U.S. Army Aircrew Coordination Training
- UPAC Safety Guide for Helicopter Operators
- Using Your Head: Helicopter Helmets”
- Weather Threat For VMC Flights
- What’s the Operating Status of the Most Critical System on Your Helicopter?
- Whether the Weather is Right: Weather Resources for Helicopter Pilots
Safety Tools
- 4 Key Helicopter Technologies That Will Save Lives
- 7 Technologies That Can Reduce Helicopter Accidents
- Advantages of Simulators (FSTDs) in Helicopter Flight Training
- Airbus Notice on Vortex Ring State
- Density Altitude
- Dolly Operations
- Emergency Decision Making
- Helicopter Mountain Flight Table 1
- Helicopter Mountain Flight Table 2
- Helicopter Mountain Flight Table 3
- Helicopter Mountain Flight Table 4
- Helicopter Mountain Flight Table 5
- Helicopter Mountain Flight Table 6
- Helicopter Performance
- How To Become a Totally Responsible Pilot
- How to Train to Survive a Real Autorotation
- Improving the HEMS Weather Tool Leads to Improved Safety
- Maneuver Initiation Envelope
- Rotor Rooter: Rooting for Autorotational Success
- Safety System of Human Performance Improvement
- Teaching and Testing in Flight Simulation Training Devices (FSTD)
- The Pilot’s IMSAFE Check List
- Training and Testing of Emergency and Abnormal Procedures in Helicopter
Safety Promotion Material
- Spotlight on Safety: Final Walk-Arounds Save Lives
- Rotor Downwash
- Never Compromise Safety-Working Environment (DE), (EN), (ES), (FR), (IT), (JP), (PT), (RU)
- Aviation Safety: The Dirty Dozen (CN), (DE), (EN), (ES), (FR), (IT), (JP), (KR), (PT), (RU)
- Never Compromise Safety-Don’t Rush (CN), (DE), (EN), (ES), (FR), (IT), (JP), (KR), (PT), (RU)
- Never Compromise Safety-Handling Pressure (CN), (DE), (EN), (ES), (FR), (JP), (KR), (RU)
- Wrong is Wrong Even if Everyone is Doing it (CN), (DE), (EN), (ES), (FR), (IT), (JP), (KR), (PT), (RU)
Safety Training
- 6 Ways That Helicopter Instructors Can Save Lives
- 8 Ways to Enhance Helicopter Training and Reduce Fatal Accidents
- Advantages of Simulators (FSTDs) in Helicopter Flight Training
- Airbus Notice on Vortex Ring State
- Building Better Pilots Through Better Flight Reviews
- Conducting a Helicopter Flight Review
- Full Touchdown Autorotation Training
- Helicopter Flight Instructor Guide Vol. 2.2
- Helicopter Flight Instructor Manual (EHEST)
- HOIST OPERATOR TRAINING GUIDE V1.0
- Instructional Safety
- Recurrent Training
- Teaching and Testing in Flight Simulation Training Devices (FSTD)
- Training and Testing of Emergency and Abnormal Procedures in Helicopter
- Training Toolkit
SMS - General
- SMS for Small Organisations Templates
- Management of Change Template
- SMS Manual Contents Template
- Safety Management Systems: Guidance for Small Non-Complex Organisations -UK (CAP 1059)
- CAA Safety Management Systems Guidance Material –UK (CAP 795)
- Phase 1 SMS Gap Analysis (evaluation framework) for non-Complex Organisations
- Phase 1 SMS Gap Analysis (evaluation framework) for Complex Organisations
- Management of Change Evaluation Tool
- SMS Evaluation Tool
- Role and Analytical Tools in Airline Flight Safety Management Systems
- 4 Pillars of Personal Safety Management for a Helicopter Pilot
- Culture Shock Step-by-Step Solutions Are Available to Improve Helicopter Safety Attitudes
- EHEST Safety Management Toolkit for Non-Complex Operators
- Implementing SMS with Small Helicopter Operators
- Industry SMS Definitions
- Safety Management Systems (SMS) and Decision Making
- SMS Brochure
- SMS Gap Analysis Worksheet
- SMS in Small Operations
- SMS Toolkit, 1st edition
- SMS Toolkit, 2ndt edition
- SMS for Helicopter Maintenance
- What is Missing in Your SMS?
SMS - Risk Management
- Preflight Risk Assessment for Student Flights-Recommended Practices
- Hazard Log Template
- A Flight/Ground Risk Assessment Tool
- Benefits of the FAA’s Safety Management System Voluntary Program
- Hazard Identification-If You See Something, Say Something
- Helicopter Hazard Identification
- Personal Minimums
- Pilot Decision Making
- Real World SMS 2: Risk Assessment
- Real World SMS 3: Risk Control
- SMS for Certificated Flight Instructors
- SMS Growing a Just Culture
- SMS: How to Get Started for the Small Operator
U.S. FAA Topic of the Month (NOTE: Some topics may be fixed-wing oriented, but contains valuable information that can be applied to all aircraft)
- Introduction to SRM-Presentation
- Introduction to SRM-Notes
- CFIT & Plan Continuation Bias-Presentation
- CFIT & Plan Continuation Bias-Notes
- Aerospace Medicine and You-Presentation
- Aerospace Medicine and You-Notes
- Transition Training-Presentation
- Transition Training -Notes
- Burning Helicopters Cannot Fly: Proper Techniques in Refueling