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The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) international CFIT Task Force completed
its work in 1995, after creating several unique products, including:
- An “FSF CFIT Safety Alert,” [PDF 20K]
distributed to thousands of operators worldwide, emphasizes the importance
of an immediate and decisive response by flight crews to ground-proximity
warning system (GPWS) warnings.
- The “FSF CFIT Checklist,” which helps
pilots and aircraft operators assess the CFIT risk for specific flights,
is available in Arabic
[PDF 869K], Chinese
[PDF 1,300K], English
[PDF 24K], French
[PDF 73K], Russian
[PDF 316K] and Spanish
[PDF 71K] versions. More than 30,000 copies of the checklist
have been distributed worldwide and many thousands more have been reproduced
from FSF resources.
- The “FSF CFIT Checklist Worksheet” appeals
to pilots who would rather make selections from a computer display
than perform manual calculations. The purpose of this free software
is to help flight crews and others assess CFIT risks for specific flights,
identify factors that reduce those risks and enhance pilot awareness
of CFIT risk. The worksheet is designed to be equivalent to the printed
FSF CFIT Checklist (above) so that wording, calculations and
risk scores correspond between the two formats, except as required
to take advantage of Microsoft Excel functions. This user-friendly
software runs on computers equipped with Microsoft Windows operating
systems and the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application. Gerald H.
Pilj, an aircraft certification engineer with the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), programmed the worksheet's interface and automated
functions. FAA is not responsible for the accuracy of this educational
tool and does not require its use by U.S. aircraft owners and operators.
Download the software, user advice and a descriptive article using
the following links:
FSF CFIT Checklist Worksheet.xls [Excel
334K]
Troubleshooting.txt [Text 4K]
Troubleshooting.pdf [PDF 19K]
CFIT_Checklist_Goes_Digital.pdf [PDF
77K]
- A 32-minute video training aid, CFIT:
Awareness and Prevention,
designed primarily for regional and business aircraft operators, presents
CFIT statistics, examines three representative CFIT accidents and presents
cockpit-voice-recorder (CVR) and data simulation to illustrate accident-reduction
strategies. More than 6,000 copies of the video have been distributed
worldwide. Copies of the video training aid are available from the
Foundation
for US$30 (members) or US$40 (nonmembers), plus shipping-and-handling
costs. Order CFIT: Awareness and Prevention from Maya Barbee,
at +1 (703) 739-6700, extension 111; fax: +1 (703) 739-6708; or purchase
online using our secure server and your credit card; and,
- The CFIT Education and Training Aid, a
two-volume package developed under the auspices of the FSF CFIT Task
Force and
produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, presents an in-depth
examination of CFIT hazards, specific educational material, a model
training program and effective CFIT-avoidance strategies. The training
aid comprises five sections. Section 1 provides an overview of CFIT
problems and possible solutions. Section 2 identifies areas in which
CFIT-prevention efforts can best be addressed. Section 3 discusses
CFIT
causal factors and how flight crews can recognize these factors and
take in-flight action to maintain flight safety. Section 4 provides
a model CFIT-prevention training program, including classroom briefings,
flight-simulator instruction and airplane-specific examples of the
CFIT
escape maneuver. Section 5 provides background material on CFIT, including
selected reading. The training aid also includes the video Controlled
Flight Into Terrain: An Encounter Avoided, which analyzes in detail
a jet transport CFIT accident and shows how such accidents can be
prevented.
The CFIT Education and Training Aid is available from the Foundation
for US$200 (FSF members) or $300 (nonmembers) plus shipping-and-handling
costs. Order the CFIT Education and Training Aid from Namratha Apparao,
membership services coordinator, at +1 (703) 739-6700, extension 101;
fax +1 (703) 739-6708; or purchase
online using our secure server and your credit card.
- The FSF ALAR Tool Kit [special
flyer, PDF 88K] is a multimedia resource on compact disc (CD)
for safety professionals and training organizations working to
prevent the
leading causes of fatalities in commercial aviation: approach-and-landing
accidents (ALAs), including those involving controlled flight into
terrain
(CFIT). The CD contains a wide range of textual material and graphic
material based largely on the data-driven studies of the FSF Approach-and-landing
Accident Reduction (ALAR) Task Force. The ALAR Tool Kit has 2,600 searchable
pages that include: FSF ALAR Task Force findings, conclusions and
recommendations
— and the data on which they were based; briefing notes on 34
major ALAR issues; supplements to approach briefings; guidelines for
evaluating training, standard operating procedures and equipment; recommended
standard operating procedures and risk-assessment checklists; four
posters
illustrating lessons learned; five slide presentations on accident
data, flight operations and training, equipment, pilot-controller
communication
and instrument-approach design; two videos exploring ALAs and CFIT
accidents, and how they could have been avoided; over 100 FSF publications;
and
links to aviation-data sources on the Internet. The Foundation
provided copies free of charge to FSF members; additional copies are
available to members for US$40 (plus shipping and handling) prepaid;
and nonmembers for $160 (plus shipping and handling) prepaid; place
orders with Namratha Apparao,
membership services coordinator, at +1 (703) 739-6700, extension 101;
fax +1 (703) 739-6708. Discounts available for larger
quantities; contact Bob Vandel, FSF executive vice president, at +1
(703) 739-6700, extension 110; fax +1 (703) 739-6708 or purchase
online using our secure server and your credit card.
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