Flying in the Wire Environment

The “Flying in the Wire and Obstruction Environment Course” is a multi-media seminar acclaimed by professional airplane and helicopter operators world-wide. It gives low-level flight crews the essential skills needed to safely operate an aircraft in wire and obstruction environments.

A brief overview of the topics covered during the course are as follows:

The “Basic Awareness’s” low-level flight crews must have and maintain while operating in the wire and obstruction environment
How to identify the hazards associated with wire and obstruction accidents
Understanding your exposure to the wire and obstruction environment
Crew Resource Management (What the pilot and crewmembers need to do in order to act together as a team in the wire and obstruction environment)
Why the crewmember is so important regarding safety during low-level operations
How to scan in the wire environment effectively
The responsibilities of each crew member
In-flight communications about wire and obstructions
Where the wire and obstruction environment really is
Dynamics of the wire environments
Traps waiting for untrained low-level flight crews
Visibility Engineering (What you can and can’t see and why)
How flight crews can forecast the presence of wire long before they can actually see it
Illusions while operating in the wire environment (What causes them and how to manage them)
The high “wire” reconnaissance (How is it different from the normal recon?)
Additional dangers during low-level operations
How useful are today’s obstruction marking schemes

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