EGAST

Video – Safety parachute can save your life !

egastuser — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:28:41 +0000

Safety parachute can save your life but can’t protect you against yourself. This video was developped by the french “Institut pour l’amélioration de la sécurité aérienne” IASA for EGAST.

SPORTOVNÍ LÉTÁNÍ … BEZPEČNĚ! (LAA ČR)

egastuser — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:19:26 +0000

je sada čtyř instruktážních (metodických) filmů zpracovaných tak, aby přispěly k bezpečnosti sportovního letectví a taky jej popularizovaly.

“Sports Flying… Safely!” is a set of four instructional (methodological) films prepared by Light Aircraft Association of the Czech Republic in order to contribute to the safety of sport aviation and to the promotion of it. The film consist of four documents focused on flying with Ultra-light Aircraft, powered paragliding, paragliding and hang-gliding.

Click on the picture to acess the videos:

EGAST Leaflet – Weather Anticipation (GA3)

egastuser — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:50:50 +0000

Feb 2012 – Aviation forecasts are important, and pilots must always expect to meet the forecast conditions.
However, a forecast only describes what is most likely to happen, and pilots must consider other possible outcomes. This leaflet should help pilots to recognise the approach of worsening weather before they fly into it.

GA3_EGAST_Weather Anticipation_v1

Technical feasibility and safety benefit of a light FDM system

egastuser — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:33:32 +0000

The object is to carry out a feasibility study, an initial prototype design and a flight trial of an integrated FDM system for single engine light aeroplanes that in addition provides a flight data storage and retrieval capability. It will assist accident investigation and also permit the pilot / maintenance personnel to access flight information and be notified of operational exceedances.

Final report EASA.2007/2

EGAST Leaflet – Navigation in day VFR using advanced technologies (GA4)

egastuser — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:44:43 +0000

Jan 2012 – This leaflet aims to provide tips to better use advanced technology for navigation in day VFR. Technological evolutions are intended among other to improve safety. This will only happen if they are properly integrated in pilot’s practices.

The use of SATNAV (GPS) is increasingly combined with additional features. The following points are covered: Become familiar with the equipment, Avoid being distracted in flight, Over confidence, overreliance, Interferences and jamming of the SATNAV signal, Installation, Keep your software and databases up-to-date, Learn from other users and how to use advanced navigation technology in flight.

This is a draft documents. Please provide us with comments and feedback.

Refer to:

IAA General Aviation Safety Survey

egastuser — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:04:28 +0000

The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) conducted a survey of general aviation in Ireland to assist the IAA develop safety policy and to effectively target safety promotion in the future.

The survey can be viewed at : General Aviation survey

the results are published below:

AEPAL Safety posters

egastuser — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:02:57 +0000

The Asociación Española de Pilotos de Aeronaves Ligeras (AEPAL) is producing Safety Sense Posters for General Aviation Pilots in Spain. Those Posters are updated regularly, so please visit the dedicated page on the AEPAL Website.

Examples :

EGAST presentation during the AirTN Thematic Forum Safety

egastuser — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:40:23 +0000

Horion House, Köln, Germany, Nov 9 2011 AirTN Thematic Forum Safety

“The focus of the Air-TN forum was to address safety issues at European level with the objective of bringing together academia and stakeholders in aviation safety to create prosperous networks imitating in the future innovative research programmes to further aviation safety goals.”

Link to the AirTN forum site

Presentation on ESSI - General Aviation Safety (EGAST)

SKYbrary article: Piston Engine Induction Icing

egastuser — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:25:19 +0000

an article on Piston Engine Induction Icing was published on SKYbrary. Link to the Article.

EGAST co-chairs welcome the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority (AESA) in the Core-Team

egastuser — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:25:41 +0000