Professional Pilot, October 2018
General aviation is well served by AOPA in my opinion And of course I enjoy gleaning useful information from 3 magazines Pro Pilot BCA and Flying Tim Harold ATP CFII A P Pilatus PC 12 PC 6 Captain Yajasi Sentani Papua Indonesia When I was a chief pilot for an insurance company a few years back NBAA was awesome for their support and guidance to its members Now retired but still flying actively as a CFI Im always impressed by the support AOPA provides to its members instructors and student pilots Its very professionally done Stephen Sturgil ATP CFII Cessna 172 150 Piper PA24 Instructor White Water Aviation Florence KY 36 PROFESSIONAL PILOT October 2018 As manager of a Part 91 flight department our most valuable organization that we belong to is the South East Aviation Safety Round Table SEASRT for short SEASRT is a group of corporate flight departments that gather several times a year to discuss safety issues that are affecting us as individual flight departments or as business aviation in general Each department is represented by their safety advisor or a representative Everyone signs a non disclosure agreement so they can talk freely without fear of any possible repercussion Furthermore in between the time that they meet we can get answers to questions or suggestions via e mail from the other member flight departments on all sorts of topics related to aviation These outstanding folks have made a difference in my department and I would spend my last dime remaining a member of the SEASRT For those who dont live in the Southeast there are many regional safety roundtables around the US I highly encourage you to reach out and find one We also belong to the Flight Safety Foundation FSF and NBAA both of which do a great job of supporting business aviation In fact I am a member of the FSF Business Advisory Committee and we try very hard to stay in touch with the latest safety issues affecting business aviation We also work hard to support the NBAA in any way we can in their outstanding efforts supporting aviation safety I encourage all of our Part 91 flight departments to stay engaged in order to protect those freedoms that we enjoy as Part 91 professional aviators Its up to us to protect these liberties and the NBAA and FSF help us to do so Rick Boyer ATP Phenom 300 Aviation Manager SCANA West Columbia SC
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