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Safety Sense Leaflets

New and updated safety information for GA pilots

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A new and updated series of Safety Sense Leaflets has been launched. 

Our full suite of Safety Sense Leaflets (as at 24 Jan 2024) cover a range of subjects from winter flying to balloon airmanship. Following the success of the Skyway Code we have started to revise the series. 

The latest leaflets cover flying with passengers, VFR moving maps and winter flying. More key leaflets are being developed for release over the coming months.

Enquiries regarding the content of this publication should be addressed to:GA@caa.co.uk - please use subject line 'Safety Sense'.

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Editions

Safety Sense: Care of Passengers in General Aviation Aircraft

PDF, 396KB

Safety Sense: VFR Moving Map Devices (November 2021)

PDF, 931KB

Safety Sense: Winter Flying

PDF, 1.11MB

Safety Sense: Fuel handling and storage (March 2022)

PDF, 221KB

Safety Sense: Strip Flying (May 2024)

PDF, 1.55MB

Safety Sense: Loss of Control (July 2022)

PDF, 452KB

Safety Sense: Ditching (July 2022)

PDF, 355KB

Safety Sense: Flight under Visual Flight Rules

PDF, 663KB

Safety Sense: Radiotelephony

PDF, 1.21MB

Safety Sense: Distraction

PDF, 885KB

Safety Sense: Piston Engine Icing

PDF, 570KB

Safety Sense: Aerobatics in Light Aircraft

PDF, 524KB

The Paramotor Code

PDF, 1.62MB

Safety Sense: Occurrence Reporting for General Aviation

PDF, 7.11MB

Safety Sense: Helicopter Airmanship

PDF, 1.20MB

Safety Sense: VFR Flight into IMC

PDF, 1.13MB

Safety Sense: Weight, Balance and Performance

PDF, 4.03MB

Safety Sense: Carbon Monoxide Safety

PDF, 319KB

Safety Sense: Mountain Flying

PDF, 1.12MB

Handling Sense: Twin Piston Aeroplanes

PDF, 148KB

Handling Sense: Gyroplane Handing and Performance

PDF, 324KB

Safety Sense: Good Airmanship Guide

PDF, 377KB

Safety Sense: Aerodrome Sense

PDF, 934KB

Safety Sense: Bird Avoidance

PDF, 521KB

Safety Sense: Collision Avoidance

PDF, 260KB

Safety Sense: Wake Vortex

PDF, 114KB

Safety Sense: Balloon Airmanship

PDF, 123KB

Safety Sense: VFR Flight Plans

PDF, 384KB

Safety Sense: Pilots: It's Your Decision

PDF, 238KB

Safety Sense: Use of GPS

PDF, 375KB

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