Pilot Safety
A free safety awareness video for all pilots to view on-line.
View the Surviving the Wires Environment video
No aircraft is a match for steel towers and electric wires. Aviation wire strikes occur on average once a week with many of those collisions resulting in fatalities.
This video is for all rotary and fixed wing pilots to view. It describes the dangers of flying in the "wires environment" and emphasizes that low-level air space is becoming increasingly more crowded with man-made obstructions such as transmission towers, wires and telecommunication antennas.
This safety awareness video identifies the key hazards and important issues every pilot needs to know and understand when operating in low-level flight operations. The video includes interviews with pilots who have experienced collisions, features comments from some of the leading experts in collision avoidance, explores the intricacies of pilot vision, and reviews the key components of a comprehensive utility pilot/ground crew safety training program.
This video is not a substitute for a formal wire avoidance training program.
The majority of aviation obstructions are not indicated on charts and are not required to have markings or warning systems. More than 7,000 new aviation hazards are being built in the wires environment every year and the charts cannot keep up with the changes. The electric utility industry is also rapidly expanding the transmission and distribution grid with thousands of new steel towers and thousands of miles of wire in order to reach growing population centers and to connect with remote renewable energy resources such as solar and wind.
Southern California Edison worked in close cooperation with Helicopter Association International (HAI),and AEGIS Insurance Services, Inc. to produce this compelling 25 minute video. Every pilot — experienced or newly licensed; commercial, military, first responder, ENG or general aviation – are encouraged to watch this video either individually, in a club setting, during flight school training, or as a safety refresher course.
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