A Flight Risk Assessment Tool For BizAv, Part 2

Wasatch County Fire District photo

The business aviation environment operates into a wide spectrum of airports, creating additional risk for a runway excursion as pictured here.

Credit: Wasatch County Fire District
The Flight Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) concept applies equally well to business aviation as to general aviation. A well-designed FRAT can provide proactive identification of specific risks as well as the accumulation of risk for the flight. In addition, FRAT fits well into a Safey Management System...
Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.

Upon his retirement as a non-routine flight operations captain from a fractional operator in 2015, Dr. Veillette had accumulated more than 20,000 hours of flight experience in 240 types of aircraft—including balloons, rotorcraft, sea planes, gliders, war birds, supersonic jets and large commercial transports. He is an adjunct professor at Utah Valley University.

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