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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 (July 2021)

PDF, 250KB

Safety Sense: VFR Moving Map Devices (November 2021)

PDF, 931KB

Safety Sense: Winter Flying (December 2021)

PDF, 1.24MB

Safety Sense: Fuel handling and storage (March 2022)

PDF, 221KB

Safety Sense: Strip Flying (May 2024)

PDF, 1.24MB

Safety Sense: Loss of Control (July 2022)

PDF, 452KB

Safety Sense: Ditching (July 2022)

PDF, 355KB

Safety Sense: Flight under Visual Flight Rules

PDF, 611KB

Safety Sense: Radiotelephony

PDF, 827KB

Safety Sense: Distraction

PDF, 919KB

Safety Sense: Piston Engine Icing

PDF, 570KB

Safety Sense: Aerobatics in Light Aircraft

PDF, 557KB

The Paramotor Code

PDF, 1.62MB

Safety Sense: Occurrence Reporting for General Aviation

PDF, 7.25MB

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, 1.11MB

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