The Soaring Safety Foundation (SSF) Safety Seminars Hit The Road in the USA

The Soaring Safety Foundation (SSF) will cooperate with your gliding
organization to present a gliding safety seminar to pilots in your
city. The SSF will provide an instructor to present four to six hours'
worth of presentations to help you and your fellow pilots identify and
reduce risk factors in soaring.

Question: What topics will be covered in the Safety Seminar?
Answer:
- Glider accident analysis
- Preventing aerotow accidents
- Landing accidents and emergency preparedness training: Is there a
link?
- Sinking airmass and its role in glider accidents
- Soaring site surveys and accident prevention
- Detecting and correcting gaps in your club's flight training program
- Preventing stall/spin accidents through landing task analysis and
recurrent training.
Other topics may be substituted or included at the request of the
hosting organization.

Question: What must a gliding club/FBO do to arrange for such a
seminar?
Answer:
- Consult with the Soaring Safety Foundation to select a suitable date
for your Safety Seminar
- Publicize and promote the event locally
- Provide a meeting room suitable for lecture/powerpoint presentations,
and
- Fill the meeting room with glider pilots, glider pilot wannabes, and
towpilots to attend the Safety Seminar.

Question: How much does it cost?
Answer:
1. Your organization must cover any/all on-site costs (meeting room,
light refreshments if deemed appropriate, chairs, a white surface to
project powerpoint shows on, and so on). In many cases these expenses
will be very low if members work together in volunteer fashion to
reduce on-site expenses.
2. Your organization pays a flat fee of $300.00 to the SSF to help
defray the cost of bringing the Safety Seminar to your city. SSF will
more than match that amount to bring the Safety Seminar to you. When
you add up all travel expenses alone, you can see that the actual cost
of a Seminar far exceeds $300. The SSF subsidizes these Safety
Seminars because SSF Trustees deem them effective accident-prevention
tools.

Question: How can my gliding organization raise $300 to pay for this
Safety Seminar?
Answer: If 30 club members attend the presentation, the cost per
person is $10 - a fraction of the cost of a single aerotow launch. Not
a bad deal!

Question: How many seminars will take place each year?
Answer: That depends on the demand. The target for the first year is
six. If money is available to continue to subsidize the program, the
number of seminars may grow in future years.

To request a safety Seminar for your area please visit the SSF website
www.soaringsafety.org
and click on the "Outreach Activities/Safety Seminars" tab in the
navigation bar. Or simply click he
http://www.soaringsafety.org/events/seminars.html
and make your request.

Tax-deductible donations from individuals and organizations help fund
the outreach programs of the Soaring Safety Foundation.

Posted by Bob Wander, SSF Safety Seminar Coordinator.

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