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  • Just This Once: Landings, Taxi, & Ground Operations

    Created and narrated by Gene Benson

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  • About the course

    (FAA ACCEPTANCE PENDING)

    Our series title, “Just This Once,” comes from mishaps that occur when someone knowingly acts contrary to an established procedure or regulation and justifies it by thinking or saying, “it will be okay just this once.” This course focuses the most frequently occurring kinds of accidents and incidents.

    The course consists of text, videos, accident examples, references, and a quiz. The reference section consists of both required and optional material. The required material is part of the course and may be included in the quiz. The optional material is strongly recommended to increase your safety as a pilot. completion time for the course will be approximately 40 minutes. Successful completion of the course, including the quiz, is valid for 1/2 credit at the Advanced Level Topic-1 in the FAA Wings program.

    Sucessful completion of the course also qualification for the Avemco Safety Rewards Program.

  • Part 1: Landings

    Watch this video to see a brief intorduction and then some examples of how "Just This Once" may have contributed to several landing accidents, and more importantly, see some steps we can take to mitigate the risk of making the same mistakes ourselves. When the video ends, move on to the next section.

  • Part 2: Taxi and Ground Operations

    Watch this video to see how "Just this Once" may have contributed to taxi or ground operations accidents or incidents. Mitigation strategies are presented. When the video ends, move on the reference section.

  • Reference Section

    Required

    Having a custom Personal Minimums Checklist is very important for every pilot. This document from the FAA explains the why and how of developing your own Personal Minimums Checklist.

    Download and read Developing Personal Minimums

    The advantage of the Flight Risk Assessment Tool is that it requires only objective decisions rather than subjective ones. This document is for demonstration purposes only. It is not to be used for actual flights unless modified to suit individual pilot circumstances. This sample is appropriate for a non-instrument rated pilot flying a simple or complex single-engine airplane.

    Download and study the sample FRAT.

    Optional

    Just This Once! (Wings Master Knowledge-2)

    This is the parent course for the "Just this Once" series. It provides a larger overview of the concepts involved and the psychology behind this human behavior. The course consists of text, videos, accident examples, references, and a quiz. Completion time for the course is approximately one hour.

    Click here to begin the course

    Checklists Micro-Course (Wings Advanced Knowledge-2)

    This course will explain why checklists should be dynamic documents, always ready to be improved or expanded. It will discuss the creation or revision of checklists for normal operations, abnormal operations, and emergency procedures. It will also show how the process of creating or revising checklists will increase better understanding of the airplane's systems and operation.

    The course consists of four learning modules, a downloads module, and a quiz.

    Click here to begin the course

  • Summary

    During this course, we saw the practical importance of following established procedures and regulations. We examined how external factors and our humanness can adversely affect our decision making. We saw how a pilot might be led into thinking, “It will be okay just this once.” We saw some common examples of the various landing, taxi, and ground operations mishaps and some tools we can use to be better, safer pilots.

    Quiz

    Congratulations on completing the course. There is just one more step to earn your FAA Wings credit! Feel free to review any of the material in the course. When you are ready for the quiz, click the link below. The quiz consists of ten multiple choice questions and the passing grade is 80%. If you are not successful the first time, you may take the quiz again.

    VERY IMPORTANT! When you enter your email address in the quiz, please be sure to accurately enter the email address you use to access your Wings account on FAASafety.gov. Credit can not be issued any other way and an alternate email address or a typo will prevent the FAA system from accepting the credit. Also, be sure to enter the full email address. A common error is to leave off the ".com" or ".net" at the end. For example, most humans would know that "abcdefg@gmail" means "abcdefg@gmail.com" but the computer does not make that association and will reject the credit request.

    BEGIN THE QUIZ

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