Read and learn. These resources published and assembled by COPA volunteers provide you with safety materials that can help answer your questions, reinforce your commitment to safety, and enhance your safe flying.
COPA Safety History
How safe is the Cirrus? These history pages list all of the known fatal accidents and CAPS parachute pulls.
Annual Special Issue on Safety – Cirrus Pilot Magazine
The November/December 2008 issue is a must-read for all Cirrus pilots. Did you know that COPA members have a dramatically lower rate of fatal accidents than non-members? You owe it to yourselves to understand why.
Non-members and members may read selected articles from this issue by clicking the article titles linked below.
Members may download the complete issue as a PDF file from the online Cirrus Pilot magazine archive here. Non-members may join COPA online for immediate full access.
Contents:
- How Safe is a Cirrus? – Rick Beach
- Lessons Learned from Cirrus Accident History – Rick Beach
- Why Not More CAPS Saves? – Rick Beach
- They had time. They had altitude. But they crashed without using CAPS. – Rick Beach
- Top 10 Fundamentals of Safe Flying – Luke Lysen
- It Isn't The Tough Stuff – What to work on during simulator training. – John Fiscus
- Misfueled! When piston airplanes are fueled with Jet A, people can die. –Mike Busch
NTSB Dockets of Cirrus Accident Information
COPA presents the information behind the NTSB accident investigations. Once the NTSB publishes a probable cause report for an accident, the investigative information held in the NTSB Document Management System becomes available. This material includes wreckage data and photographs, radar tracks, pilot information, NTSB analysis and reconstruction of the accident flight, transcripts of the ATC radio transmissions, FSS briefings, and witness and survivor interviews.
Safety insights and lessons learned from accident investigation reports, compiled and presented as interesting stories about Cirrus safety.
The most intense and up-to-date information about Cirrus safety discussions are on the COPA forums. When something happens, many COPA members provide updates, news stories, photographs, weather information, flight track data, and insightful commentary on things that have they have learned. Join the discussions, read what others have to offer and then ask your questions. When COPA members focus on learning from the experiences of others and avoid judging their mistakes, we make a contribution to flight safety.