Safety
Single Pilot Groups Merge Expertise
Single pilot group worked hard to create the safety standdown event held the day before NBAA 2015

The NBAA’s annual single-pilot safety standdown ran much of the day before this year’s convention opened in Las Vegas on November 17. Organized by the association’s Safety Committee, the standdown focused on a host of topics, including loss of control and how different that topic might appear to some pilots when viewed through the lens of a single-pilot operation.

Standdown invitees ran the gamut, from Cirrus pilots and support staff to TBM and Pilatus operators and type-rated pilots now flying light jets such as the Eclipse 500/550, Phenom 100/300 or the CitationJet series, all capable of being flown routinely by just one pilot. Single-pilot working group chairman Jim Lara, principal of Gray Stone Advisors, said, “The standdown is focused on real-world scenarios that we all have to deal with. Every aviator owes it to himself to attend.”