Val Palazzolo, National FAASTeam Manager
 Hello
Everyone!
In checking our FAASTeam Online Analysis Reporting Site (OARS)
most of you have completed the National FAASTeam Performance Plan (NPP) tasks
by the due dates listed, while others need to do some catchup. Knowing your local area risks and having a
planned mitigation strategy is key to accomplishing our FAASTeam Mission. All of you are an integral piece of the entire
FAASTeam, and I appreciate all of your hard work.
Please keep your safety outreach focus going so that we can
continue to educate the General Aviation community and reduce the GA accident
and incident rate.
Below are some interesting 2016 statistics from our FAASafety.gov
website and Social Media channels:
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Total
FAASafety.gov website users
802,191
Successful
log-ins
1,000-1,800 per day
New
Users in the Past Year
67,800
On-Line
courses
255
Course
completions
1,060,616
UAS course
completions
31,239
FAASTeam
Representatives
2,220
FAASTeam
Lead Representatives
358
FAASTeam
Program Managers
118
Manager/POC
approvers
42
The website
sent 1,276,460 messages to 47,151,479 recipients
Seminars
4,661
Seminar
attendees
164,441
Webinars
96
Webinar
attendees
13,499
WINGs
Growth
Start 14,884; End 18,237; Diff +3,353; +22.5%
WINGS
Credits earned
241,279
Basic
Airmen
27,497
Advanced
Airmen
12,889
Master
Airmen
9,005
Individual
AMT Awards in 2016
13,307
Bronze
8,955
Silver
5,390
Gold
133
Employer
AMT Awards in 2016
234
Diamond
148
Gold
25
FAASTeam
Social Media Outreach:
So far in FY17:
- More
than 13,000 links have been clicked on Twitter to read our content. That includes
magazine articles, General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) fact
sheets, SPANS messages, and other safety related content.
- 11,258
links have been clicked on Facebook to read our GA content. An average of
52,000 people see our Facebook content every time we post on the site.
- 12,072 links have been clicked on LinkedIn to read our GA content. An average of
41,000 people see our LinkedIn content every time we post on the site.
Master Pilot Awards — A Heartfelt Thanks
The FAASTeam presents hundreds of Master Pilot Awards each year to recognize great individual achievements. Recently, we had an award presentation that was extra special, and to thank the members of Flight Standards and the FAASTeam for making this unique presentation happen, received an e-mail from Jo Damato, Director of the National Business Aviation Association. She tells the story so well, that I’ve included an excerpt from her email below.
From left to right: Jo Damato, Mr. Tait, Eric Sieracki
Thank you to everyone who had a part in helping to recognize Mr. Jeffrey Allen Tait in receiving his Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for achieving the incredible milestone of 50 years as an active pilot.
Mr. Tait was supposed to travel with his family from Moorestown, NJ to Orlando, FL to receive this award as part of a larger FAA ceremony at Sun n Fun. Unfortunately, his cancer that he's successfully beaten over the last 5 years returned, and he took an unexpected downturn and is now in home hospice care.
Last week, I reached out to many of you to see if anyone could help me get his award sent to New Jersey so I could work with the local fire department in my hometown where Mr. Tait has been a longtime active volunteer to present it to him in his home. The response last Friday was compassionate and incredibly swift. By the weekend, the FAA had sent me the beautiful color certificate marking the achievement, the lapel pin for Mr. Tait, and the spouse stick pin to present to his wife and two adult daughters. In addition, NBAA HQ sent me the 15,000 hour Flying Safety Award pin.
On Thursday, March 30, I had the pleasure of joining Eric Sieracki, PHL FSDO FAA Safety Team Program Manager at Mr. Tait's home. We arrived with the entire Moorestown Fire Department — about 40 men who consider Mr. Tait family — who arrived on their fire trucks. Mr. Tait was able to meet us in his living room, and let us know how surprised and happy he was to see everyone.
The fire department presented him with a beautiful tribute and lifetime award. I presented him with the NBAA Flying Safety Award. Eric then beautifully presented him the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. Mr. Tait could not believe that the event he had to miss in Florida came to him in his NJ home. His wife and daughters were at his side. He told some great stories about his flying career and time spent at about 30 NBAA Conventions over his career. At this time, Eric Sieracki also presented him with a printed compilation — it must have been 100+ pages — of his FAA records marking his accomplishments from his first solo to his last achievement. It was a "this is your life" moment that was beautiful to witness. Mr. Tait was so happy to see his dedicated aviation career on the physical pages in front of him. He spent the rest of the evening hangar flying with all of us.
Thanks again to our friends at NBAA, and the FAA, for making this wish come true for the Tait family. We all get so busy with the big picture of this industry in our daily work that it really is something to pause and just reflect on one individual's amazing journey and passion for aviation. In that spirit, I invite you to read some of Mr. Tait's own recollections he submitted as articles to Air Facts Journal over the years. I bet they will make you smile! http://airfactsjournal.com/author/jefftait/.
With appreciation,
Jo
Joanne M. "Jo" Damato, CAM
Director, Educational Development & Strategy
National Business Aviation Association
What's New
BasicMed became effective May 1, 2017. Find a one-page printable version at the FAASTeam National sharepoint site in Shared Documents.
Click here for more information on the FAA website.
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FAASTeam
Webinar Speaker’s List
An Excel spreadsheet has been set up to capture great webinar speakers from
your region that might be interested in presenting their topic to other Regions/Districts
webinars. For example, webinar speakers may have a presentation on a particular
topic that other regions might want to hear. The spreadsheet is located on the
National SharePoint Site under Shared Documents.
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FY 17 4th Qtr. CFI Forum Presenter’s Preview Webinar for POCs
and FPMs
If
you haven’t signed up yet for a webinar on a FY17 4th Qtr. CFI Forum, please do so
today. Learn how to present the Forum and report the results.
You can select
either May 10 or May 24th.
click here to register for May 10th or
click here to register for May 24th
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GoToWebinar
Video Sharing
GoToWebinar(GTW)
has a new Beta feature for showing videos during a webinar. Click here to watch a short how-to video. License 1 is a plus account mentioned in the video, so make sure
you request the 2,000 seat webinar in your GTW request if you want to try this
feature.
FAASTeam at Sun 'n Fun
At this year’s Sun N Fun event, AFS-850’s James Williams and Jennifer Caron represented the FAA Safety Briefing Magazine, promoting the magazine and FAASTeam with social media and photography. FAASTeam’s Fred Kaiser was on hand, working the AFS-800 booth in the FAA Safety Center. See if you can spot Fred in this photo. Hint: think H2O!
 Photo by James Williams
Congratulations to Karen Arendt
 San Jose, CA FSDO FPM, who
was recently honored by her office with the 2016 Mission Possible Award. She
was nominated for the award by her peers to recognize her efforts to go above
and beyond the minimum job expectations by working with stakeholders to reduce
the number of pilot deviations, runway incursions and incidents, and for her dedication
to aviation safety in both words and deeds. "She displays professionalism,
dedication, commitment, and passion for safety, and outwardly displays
behaviors that demonstrate that:
Good is never good
enough. She mentors others in the pursuit of excellence, encourages others
through personal example, and always makes the conscious decision to do what’s
right."
Karen has been working at SJC since 2011, after transferring
from Washington Dulles, and has a very active FAASTeam Safety Program in her
district.
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2017
General Aviation Regional Honorees
In the last issue of the Newsletter, we named the three National General Award Honorees for 2017. Recently, we received a list of the 2017 Regional Honorees from the GA Award Program. The honorees were selected before the National Award winners, but it is important to recognize them. Next year, we will print the list of regional honorees first.
- CE17 Louisville, KY CFI Andy Brooks
- CE19 Nashville, TN ATA David Sinclair
- CE19 Nashville, TN REP Catherine Cavagnaro
- EA07 Baltimore, CFI Helen Woods
- EA07 Baltimore, REP John Cutcher
- EA61 Boston, ATA Timothy Howard
- GL07 Columbus, OH REP Paul Palmisciano
- GL23 Belleville, MI CFI Ginger Shields
- GL23 Detroit, E Michigan ATA Jamie Johns
- NM03 Denver, CO CFI Chuck Gensler
- NM07 Salt Lake, UT REP Craig Davis
- SO09 Birmingham, AL ATA Eric Mengelson
- SO15 Orlando, REP Mark Ducorsky
- SO15 Orlando, FL CFI Ron Timmerman
- SW11 Little Rock, AR CFI Jamie Beckett
- SW19 North Texas ATA Lloyd Timmons
- SW19 North Texas REP Chalres Finley
- WP07 Scottsdale, AZ REP Brian Roggow
- WP19 Las Vegas, CFI Dan Christman
- WP25 Sacramento, CA ATA Brian Carpenter
Magazine Handouts for Future Events
 Order FAA Safety Briefing magazines by these dates to ensure delivery prior to your event.
Very few extra copies are printed for each issue. If you know you have an event during the year where you will need a one-time amount over your regular copies, please put in an order in advance. Contact Felice.Brunner@faa.gov.
Order Extra Magazines before these dates
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For Jul/Aug (Aeromedical):
by May 17
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For Sep/Oct (CFI Refresher):
by July 19
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For Nov/Dec (Sim City/Winter Currency):
by September 20
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