If you are like me you have the best of intentions. As a conscientious pilot who wants to fly in a professional manner, you desire to stay up to date on the latest aviation information. You are planning to go to the next safety seminar that the FAA or AOPA puts on in your area. You meant to go to the last one, but something important came up and you just couldn’t make it. Come to think of it, that’s what happened the time before. Even with the best of intentions, most pilots find it very difficult to spend even a fraction of the time they would like to spend refreshing their aviation knowledge and staying abreast of new developments.
As I mentioned in my article last month on What Is Safety?, any skill or knowledge gradually diminishes if not refreshed regularly, and there are constant changes and improvements we need to keep abreast of. The problem is that with everything else going on in our lives, it can be easy to feel comfortable with our current knowledge level when in fact it has decreased quite a bit from when we first attained our license, and there may be new information we are not even aware of. One way to enhance our safety level and reduce the risks involved in our flying is to look for regular opportunities to refresh and enhance our knowledge of aviation information and regulations.
