Lake Elmo Airport 3275 Manning Ave N. , Lake Elmo , MN
FLIGHT TRAINING/OPERATIONS SAFETY POLICY AND PROCEDURES
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
1.
General
1.1. About
This Manual
1.2. Terms
2.
Rules
of Conduct for Students and Flight Instructors
2.1. Personal
Conduct
2.2. Tobacco
Products
2.3. Intoxicants
2.4. Drugs
or Narcotics
2.5. Blood/Plasma
Donations/Transfusions
2.6. Required
Clothing
3.1. Line
Operations
3.2. Frost
and Snow on Aircraft
3.3. Fuel
Sampling
3.4. Engine
Preheat
3.5. Hand
Propping Aircraft
3.6. Preflight
Actions
3.7. Entering/Exiting
Aircraft
3.8. Engine
Start
3.9. Intersection
Takeoffs
3.10.
Taxi Turn-around
3.11.
Aircraft Parking Policy
3.12.
Aircraft Status Reporting
3.13.
Securing Aircraft After Flight
4.1.
4.2. Aircraft
Radio Identification
4.3. Student
Pilot Radio Identification
4.4. Emergency
frequencies
5.1. Airport
Operations
5.2. Student
Crew Training
5.3. Carriage
of Passengers
5.4. Student
Currency for Solo Operations
5.5. Icing
Conditions
5.6. Re-dispatching
After Un-programmed Landings
5.7. Transfer
of Aircraft Control
6.1. Weather
Minimum Waivers
6.2. Local
Weather minimums (DUAL)
6.3. Local
Weather Minimums (SOLO)
6.4. Fuel
Reserves Local Area
6.5. VMC
Departure Procedures at
6.6. Practice
Area Boundary Definitions
6.7. Temperature/Wind
Chill Limitations
6.8. Collision
Avoidance
6.9. Night
Traffic Pattern Operations
6.10Radar Service
6.10.
Reporting Points and Procedures
7.1. Cross-Country
Weather Minimums
7.2. Cross
Country Planning Procedures
7.3. Cross
Country Sign-Off Procedures
7.4. Overnight
Cross-Countries
7.5. Route
Deviation or Delays
7.6. Cross
Country Limitations
7.7. Fuel
Purchasing
7.8. Winter
Approved Airports for Cross Countries
7.9.
8.1. Deteriorating
Weather
8.2. Forced
Landing
8.3. Engine Fire on Start
8.4. Loss of
Communication
8.5. Lost
Procedures
8.6. Auxiliary Fields
8.7. Flight
Assistance Request
8.8. Emergency
Assumption of Control
8.9
Emergency
Operations in IMC
9.
Accident/Incident/Occurrence
Procedures
9.1. Accident/Incident/Occurrence
Notification
9.2. Personal
Injury/Death Situations
9.3. Guidelines
for Personnel Involved in an Accident, Incident, or Occurrence
1.1 About
This Manual
The
purpose of this manual is to clarify and familiarize policies and procedures,
which are in effect for Flight Training/Operations at Valters Aviation at Lake Elmo
Airport (K21D).
1.2 Terms
PIC
Pilot in Command
SOF
Supervisor of Flight
SIC
Second in Command
PNF
Pilot Not Flying
PF
Pilot Flying
ATC
Air Traffic Control
FAA
Federal Aviation Administration
NTSB
National Transportation Safety Board
21D
FAR
Federal Aviation Regulations
IAW
In Accordance With
IMC
Instrument Meteorological Conditions
VMC
Visual Meteorological Conditions
Crewmember
Any Individual Occupying a Seat in an Aicraft
Section2:
RULES OF CONDUCT FOR STUDENTS AND
FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS
2.1
Personal Conduct
While
either giving or receiving Flight Training, or any time you are on Valters
Aviation premises, you are expected to treat every individual with
respect, courtesy, and professionalism, regardless of position.
2.2
Tobacco Products
Use
of tobacco products is prohibited in all Valters Aviation buildings,
including Flight Operations, Maintenance, aircraft hangers, in any aircraft,
near any fuel source, and on the tarmac area.
2.3
Intoxicants
Use
of alcohol products or other intoxicants within 12 hours of flying is
prohibited. NO personnel may be intoxicated or suffering the effects of
intoxication when reporting for flight training. NO Pilot in Command
(PIC) may allow a person who is obviously under the influence of alcohol or
other intoxicants to be carried aboard any Valters Aviation
aircraft for any reason.
2.4
Drugs or Narcotics
2.4.1
Use or possession of drugs or narcotics
is prohibited except upon prescription and under the direct supervision of a
medical physician. The use or possession of any other drugs which may adversely
affect the physical or mental faculties in any manner,
is prohibited except under prescription and the direction of a medical
physician.
2.4.2
The term Narcotics includes cannabis
sativia, marijuana, and every compound and substance thereof.
2.4.3
The term drugs includes, but is not
limited to, the following:
2.4.4
Antihistamines, barbital compounds, sulfa
compounds, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, antihypertensives, reducing drugs,
rauwolfia, cortisone or acht compounds, mood altering drugs, prescription
tranquilizers, hallucinogenic compounds, and amphetamines (speed, pep pills,
uppers, etc.).
2.4.5
Upon first usage of a controlled
substance under medical direction, the crewmember shall be removed from flight
operations, and shall refrain from performing any flight operations until such
time that they are physically and mentally fit to resume flying duties.
2.5
Blood/Plasma Donations or Transfusions
Due
to temporary lowering of the oxygen carrying capability of blood following a
blood/plasma donation or transfusion, in no case will any flight crewmember be
allowed to fly within 72 hours after a blood/plasma donation or transfusion.
2.6
Clothing for Crewmembers
2.6.1
When the outside air temperature is below
freezing, all flight crewmembers on training flights will include:
A winter jacket
A winter hat
A pair of winter gloves
Boots (may be worn or brought onboard and
stowed)
2.6.2
Sandals will not be worn in the aircraft
during training flights.
3.1
Line Operations
3.1.1
Only persons who have
been trained may open any aircraft storage
Hanger door.
3.1.2
Only persons who
have been trained are allowed to remove aircraft from any aircraft storage
hanger.
3.1.3
NO CREWMEMBER WILL OCCUPY ANY AIRCRAFT
THAT IS BEING TOWED.
3.1.4
NO PERSON WILL BE ABOARD ANY AIRCRAFT
THAT IS BEING FUELED AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON.
3.1.5
ALL AIRCRAFT ELECTRICAL SWITCHES WILL BE
TURNED OFF, AND PROPER GROUNDING WIRE ATTACHED TO A NON-PAINTED AIRCRAFT
SURFACE, PRIOR TO BEGINNING ANY FUEL TRANSFER PROCESS.
3.1.6
It is also very important that the
aircraft dispatch book be checked
before every flight to
ensure all appropriate inspections have been
complied with. FAILURE TO DO
SO MAY COMPROMISE
SAFETY
OF FLIGHT AND/OR VIOLATE FAR 91.3.
3.2
Frost and Snow on Aircraft
3.2.1
No pilot may take off in any aircraft
that has frost, snow, ice, or snow adhering to any propeller, wing, windshield,
stabilizing or control surface, any powerplant installation, or to any
airspeed, altimeter, rate-of-climb, or flight attitude instrument system,
EXCEPT under the following conditions:
3.2.1.1
At the discretion of the PIC, airplanes
may take off with frost adhering to the wings or stabilizing/controlling surfaces,
if the frost has been polished to make it smooth.
3.2.2
No pilot may take off in an aircraft and
fly from VMC to IMC any
time conditions are such that frost, ice, or
snow may be reasonably
expected to adhere to the
aircraft UNLESS:
1.The
aircraft is certified into known icing conditions with
appropriate equipment installed and operating normally.
3.2.3
The term may reasonably be expected means:
1.
Information the pilot actually knows regarding icing conditions
such as outside temperature, visible moisture, and reports
from
other pilots, or information the pilot should know such as
all
available weather information.
3.2.4
No abrasive tool such as brooms, credit
cards, or scrapers will
be used at any time to remove ice, snow or frost
from any aircraft
window surface. Brooms only
are to be used to remove ice, snow
or frost from and other aircraft surface.