MN Wing Safety Meeting September 08

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MN Wing Safety Meeting September 08

• Lt Col Larry Brockshus
• MN Wing/SE

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Overview

• National Preparedness Month
• Sept Sentinel

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What will you if the worst happens?

• Nature
• Blizzard (loss of power)
• Flood
• Tornado
• Asteroid
• Pandemic
• Man made
• Nuclear
• Chemical
• Biological Attack
• Terrorist Attack
• Cyber Attack
• Civil Unrest

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2008 National Preparedness Month

• MEMORANDUM FOR ALL UNIT COMMANDERS from CAP Maj
  Gen Courter, National Commander
• Civil Air Patrol needs to encourage members and
  communities to be better prepared for
  emergencies.
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  sponsors NPM as nationwide effort to encourage
  Americans to take simple steps to prepare for
  emergencies in their homes, businesses and
  schools.
• Throughout NPM, DHS will work with Civil Air
  Patrol and other organizations to highlight the
  importance of emergency preparedness planning.
• NPM focuses on four main areas..
• The focus areas are
• a. Get a kit
• b. Make a plan
• c. Be informed
• d. Get involved
• NHQ will send out weekly emails to every member
  to help focus these efforts.
• Will conduct a member preparedness survey to
  determine our internal levels of preparedness
• Tools and tips available at www.ready.gov.
  (Consider posting links to your websites,)
• You're invited to join as NPM coalition members .
  Look for local events on the NPM calendar and
  consider posting your own events that are of
  interest to the local community.
• This is an ideal time for to host events for
  your members and communities to become better
  prepared while also getting the word out about
  CAP.
• NPM website has many examples of successful
  ideas that you might want to consider.

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Get a KitBasic Emergency Supply Kit

• Water, one gallon of water per person per day for
  at least three days, for drinking and sanitation
• Food, at least a three-day supply of
  non-perishable food
• Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA
  Weather Radio with tone alert
• Flashlight
• Extra batteries
• First aid kit
• Whistle to signal for help
• Dust mask, to help filter contaminated air
• Plastic sheeting and duct tape to
  shelter-in-place
• Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties
  for personal sanitation
• Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities
• Can opener for food (if kit contains canned food)
  
• Local maps

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Get a Kit Additional Items to Consider Adding to
an Emergency Supply Kit

• Prescription medications and glasses
• Infant formula and diapers
• Pet food and extra water for your pet
• Important family documents such as copies of
  insurance policies, identification and bank
  account records in a waterproof, portable
  container
• Cash or traveler's checks and change
• Emergency reference material such as a first aid
  book or information from www.ready.gov
• Sleeping bag or warm blanket for each person.
  Consider additional bedding if you live in a
  cold-weather climate.
• Complete change of clothing including a long
  sleeved shirt, long pants and sturdy shoes.
  Consider additional clothing if you live in a
  cold-weather climate.

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Get a Kit (cont.)Additional Items to Consider
Adding to an Emergency Supply Kit

• Household chlorine bleach and medicine dropper
• When diluted nine parts water to one part bleach,
  bleach can be used as a disinfectant.
• Or in an emergency, you can use it to treat water
  by using 16 drops of regular household liquid
  bleach per gallon of water.
• Do not use scented, color safe or bleaches with
  added cleaners.
• Fire Extinguisher
• Matches in a waterproof container
• Feminine supplies and personal hygiene items
• Mess kits, paper cups, plates and plastic
  utensils, paper towels
• Paper and pencil
• Books, games, puzzles or other activities for
  children

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Make a Plan

• Make sure your family has a plan in case of an
  emergency.
• Before an emergency happens, sit down together
  and decide how you will get in contact with each
  other, where you will go and what you will do in
  an emergency.
• Keep a copy of this plan in your emergency supply
  kit or another safe place where you can access it
  in the event of a disaster.

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Make a Plan

• Write down SSN, health information, medications,
  DOB, for each family member
• Write down where your family spends the most
  time work, school and other places you frequent.
  
• Have phone number and address for each members
  work or school location
• Schools, daycare providers, workplaces and
  apartment buildings should all have site-specific
  emergency plans that you and your family need to
  know about.

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Make a Plan

• Record names, phone numbers, and policy numbers
  for
• Doctor(s)
• Pharmacist
• Medical Insurance
• Homeowners/Rental Insurance
• Veterinarian/Kennel (for pets)
• Create information cards and give one to each
  member of your family to make sure they know who
  to call and where to meet in case of an
  emergency.

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Sample Card

• Family Emergency Plan
• EMERGENCY CONTACT
• NAME ____________TELEPHONE_________________
  ___
• OUT-OF-TOWN CONTACT NAME____________TELEPHONE___
  _________________
• NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING PLACE____________TELEPHONE_
  ___________________
• OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION______________
  ____________________________________
• ________________________________________

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Be Informed

• Learn more about the potential emergencies that
  could happen where you live and the appropriate
  way to respond to them.
• Learn about the emergency plans that have been
  established in your area by your state and local
  government.
• For Americans, preparedness must now account for
  man-made disasters as well as natural ones.
  Knowing what to do during an emergency is an
  important part of being prepared and may make all
  the difference when seconds count.

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Be Informed

• Contact Information
• Homeland Security/Emergency Management(651)
  201-7426www.codeready.org
• Local Information
• Dakota County Emergency Services(651)
  438-4703http//www.co.dakota.mn.us/Departments/Em
  ergencyPreparedness/Services
• Hennepin County Emergency Preparedness(763)
  596-0250http//www.hennepin.us
• Ramsey County Emergency Management and Homeland
  Security(651) 266-1015http//www.co.ramsey.mn.us
  /em/index.htm
• Minneapolis - Emergency Preparednesshttp//www.ci
  .minneapolis.mn.us/emergency
• Saint Paul - Department of Emergency
  Management(651) 228-6215

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Get Involved

• Join the Ready Campaign and our DHS partner
  Citizen Corps this September for the fifth annual
  National Preparedness Month (NPM). Register now
  to be a part of the 2008 NPM Coalition visit
  http//ready.adcouncil.org.
• Learn more about Citizen Corps, which actively
  involves citizens in making our communities and
  our nation safer, stronger and better prepared.
• Citizen Corps works hard to help people prepare,
  train and volunteer in their communities. For
  more information, go to www.citizencorps.gov to
  get involved.

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Sept Sentinel

• CAP Safety Down Day
• Schools Open!
• Stalls Awareness

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CAP Safety Down Day

• Required sometime during the month of October
• Commanders pick the day
• We we need to take the time to
• Pause and look at how we conduct business.
• Determine what our attitude is toward risk?
• Does the unit exhibit a healthy organizational
  culture?
• Does the unit train effectively while including
  safety?
• Do members interact effectively?

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Schools Open

• Watch for Kids
• They may not always use cross walks
• Darker in the morning
• Slower speeds in school zones
• Check NOTAMS prior to flight
• Migratory birds
• Changing weather
• Election campaign related TFRs

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Stall Awareness

• Stalls are your friend.
• Everything interesting about each aircrafts
  flying characteristics and the feedback you get
  from the aircraft are found around stall speed.
• Three stages to every stall
• Imminent
• Incipient
• Full

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Stall Awareness

• Imminence of a stall occurs when we approach the
  Critical Angle of Attack
• NOT low airspeed
• OR our pitch attitude was high
• Any aircraft can be stalled at any airspeed and
  any attitude.
• Approaching the critical angle of attach is what
  causes the stall warning horn to start blaring
  (normally well before the stall)

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Stall Recovery

• Most pilots are taught to recover at first
  indication of a stall (Imminent Stage)
• Steps
• Unload the angle of attack (move stick/wheel
  forward .
• Remember that the cause of the stall was
  exceeding the critical angle of attack
• Additional power may or may not be needed for
  recovery!
• Level your wings (use aileron to level them)
• Return to straight and level flight
• Keep the ball centered in the inclinometer
• (NO YAW, NO SPIN).

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Stall Awareness

• Insipient stage
• The knife edge of the stall or, RECOVER
  IMMEDIATELY or you WILL Full Stall.
• More signals sent to you from the aircraft.
• Usually include a rumbling sound from the wings
  (you can also feel this in the stick/wheel).
• You may feel buffeting and/or a push/pull motion
  forward and aft.
• Additional right rudder may be required to keep
  the ball centered.
• Recognize all of these signals as your aircraft
  talks to you

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Stall Awareness

• Full Stall stage
• Nose of the aircraft falls to a downward angle
  even though the stick/wheel are in an aft
  position
• The boundary layer of air traveling over the
  upper part of the wing has separated and the
  forward center of gravity causes the nose to
  lower

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Stall Awareness

• Are you one of the pilots who is not intimately
  familiar with the characteristics of insipient
  and full stalls in the aircraft you are flying?
• Find yourself an experienced and qualified
  instructor to explore these regions of flight
• Few of todays flight instructors are adequately
  experienced or qualified in this
• It is essential that we fully understand the
  signals that our aircraft send us and how our
  aircraft reacts to control inputs from the PIC,
  especially around the critical angle of attack.
• Do NOT be a victim of an unintentional stall

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Be Safe!