By Jim Timm JimTimm March 2015  For the March accident summary, the following are the preliminary NTSB reports of the aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona from mid January thru mid February. Hopefully the information from these reports will be used to develop safety programs and briefings that will help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and
By Jim TimmJimTimm February 2015 For general information, a review of all the accidents that had been reported in Arizona for the past year were reviewed, and the following summary for 2014 was prepared to examine a breakdown of aircraft class and the injuries involved. 2014-accident-chart The Number Of People Involved in the Above Accidents.        74 Non Injuries This year
nmpa-hypoxia-training The New Mexico Pilots Association is hosting the FAA and their Portable Reduced Oxygen Training Enclosure (PROTE) here in New Mexico. This FREE clinic will offer pilots the ability to experience hypoxia in a normobaric hypoxia training device that simulates altitude by reducing oxygen percentage without reducing atmos-pheric pressure. The Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
By Jim TimmJimTimm January 2015 The following are the preliminary NTSB reports of the aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona from November thru late December. Hopefully, APA and the FAAST team can use the information from these reports to develop safety programs and briefings that will help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and thus take the action
By Jim Timm JimTimm September 2015  The following are the preliminary NTSB reports of aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona from late July thru late August. When all detailed accident information becomes available, we will attempt to use this information to develop safety programs and briefings to help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and
By Jim TimmJimTimm December 2014 The following are the preliminary NTSB reports of the aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona from late October thru late November. Hopefully, we in APA can use the information from these reports to develop safety programs and briefings that will help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and thus take the necessary action to
November GAARMS Reportfred-gibbs Fred Gibbs While I do NOT want to jinx our good fortune so far, it has been 95 days – 3 months – since the last fatal accident in Arizona! I do not link that to just good luck, although there is some of that involved. I would much rather like to think it is us flying a little safer and a lot smarter. Sure, there have been a few fender-benders, a few
By Jim TimmJimTimm November 2014 The following are the preliminary NTSB accident reports of the aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona from mid September thru late October. Hopefully we can use the information to develop safety programs and briefings that will help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and thus take the necessary action to prevent similar
By Jim TimmJimTimm August 2014 The following are the preliminary NTSB accident reports of the most recent aviation accidents that have occurred in Arizona and hopefully the information can be used to develop safety programs and briefings that would help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others, and thus take the necessary action to prevent similar accidents from
By Jim TimmJimTimm July 2014 The following are the preliminary NTSB accident reports of aviation accidents in Arizona shortly after they have occurred and the information is used to develop safety programs and briefings that should help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and thus take the necessary action to prevent similar accidents from happening. Starting the