Business aviation is among the largest and fastest-growing segments of Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) membership. Decades ago, when business aircraft operators increasingly flocked to the Foundation to bolster their safety efforts, we responded with a number of tailor-made products, including the annual Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS), recently held in partnership with the National Business Aviation Association, and operational safety audits of corporate flight departments. The auditors used to collect what they called “good ideas” — articles, videos, contacts, brochures —that informally would be handed out on a compact disc to department managers after the audits were completed.
About a decade ago, the audit staff turned to the Foundation’s publications and technical specialists for help in turning the popular good-ideas CD into an organized and professional product. The result was the Aviation Department Tool Kit, a product comprising six unique CDs jam-p…
