Flight Instructor Safety Seminar 2009
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Safety is a learned behavior. At Universal Helicopters, our job is to create a safe training environment for our Students,
Instructors and all our employees. Safety is our number 1 priority. All decisions we make are predicated on making, keeping
and improving the safety of our operations. Economic considerations come second.
We have Universal Helicopters Safety Policies, Practices & Procedures which all students and instructors must read,
understand and agree to comply with to create and maintain that safe environment.
We teach Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM) to help our students and instructors to determine the best course of action
for a given set of circumstances. This teaches them to understand and manage risks, recognize hazardous attitudes, to make
good decisions and to be safe pilots.
We are intolerant of students and instructors who do not follow our Safety Policy, Practices and Procedures, FAA
regulations and the Limitations defined by the Robinson Helicopter Company for our helicopters. There are no second chances.
The FAA has created a national FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) with one mission, to improve the aviation safety record in the USA.
Universal Helicopters has four representatives (in Provo, Prescott, Dodge City and Scottsdale) dedicated to the promotion of aviation
safety and to support the FAA Regional Program Managers.
We run an annual two day Standardization and Safety Seminar for all our instructors covering a variety of safety and
standardization related subjects and usually have one or more external guest speakers. Our typical agenda includes:
- Review of recent helicopter crashes, causes and prevention.
- Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM)
- A review of key pertinent Federal Aviation Regulations
- A technical, systems or navigation subject
- Training techniques and how to maintain and improve the quality of training
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