Among programs new to NBAA this year is the Cessna-sponsored Single Pilot Safety Standdown. Part of the slate of educational programs intended for NBAA’s cancelled Light Business Airplane show originally scheduled for last March, the standdown, which takes place on Thursday, aims to provide single-pilot owner/operators with the same quality of safety education available to other segments of
the industry.
“What we want to do is take a format that we’ve seen work pretty successfully in other venues, most notably with Bombardier’s Safety Standdown, and export the concept to a community that we believe can benefit from the safety education that occurs elsewhere,” said Doug Carr, NBAA’s vice president for safety, security and regulation. “There’s no reason why a lot of the experience can’t be shared with people who don’t get paid to fly for a living. If you are up there flying, you are a pilot; it doesn’t matter if you are an owner/operator or a paid flight crew, everybody stands to benefit from enhanced safety education.”
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