Safety Subsidies

IBM Flying Club Safety Subsidies

The following Safety Subsidies are available to IBM Flying Club members.

Amounts paid for each Refresher will depend on our budget and the total number of safety subsidies claimed - the earlier in the year you claim, the higher the subsidy you will be likely to receive. The IBM Club have asked us not to publish the amount of each subsidy, so if you want to know how much you can claim, please contact the Treasurer. You should get a pre- and post-flight briefing with the instructor and please remember, you don't have to 'PASS' anything - you just have to have a go.

You may claim the subsidy for any flight with an instructor which includes the appropriate checks, so if you arrange a flight with any instructor, in any aircraft, in any country, just ask for the appropriate items to be included and make sure he/she signs your logbook after the flight. Alternatively if you happen to have one of our instructors with you on a trip, why not ask for the refresher(s) you want to do to be included in your trip? That way you will get your trip subsidized!

The safety subsidy is limited to one claim for each of the subsidies per member per calendar year. Unfortunately due to club budget rules, guest club members are not eligible for the safety subsidy, but that shouldn't be an excuse for not doing them anyway!

Here is what you have to do (with an instructor) in a suitable powered aircraft:

VFR Refresher

A Practice Forced Landing and
- a Stall with recovery or
- a Spin with recovery or
- an incipient stall recovery with the aircraft in landing configuration or
- a go-around in landing configuration or
- recovery from unusual attitudes

Night Refresher

This should include:
- One night take-off
- One night landing
- One night Nav-Ex

Instrument Refresher

Fly the aircraft with sole reference to instruments:

Non-IMC/IR rated pilots (full panel):

a 180 degree turn (simulating safe exit from inadvertent cloud entry) and
an unusual attitude recovery

IMC/IR rated pilots (limited panel):

an unusual attitude recovery. (ie: AI/AH covered, pupil "on instruments", instructor puts the aircraft out of both straight and level flight, and the pupil recovers.)

Multi-Engine Refresher

o Asymmetric recognition and recovery in a multi engined aircraft.

Navigation Refresher

During a VFR or IFR cross-country flight:

o Practice low-level VFR navigation

o Make an unplanned en-route diversion (no need to land at diversion airfield)

o Simulate a "lost" call or make a "practice-pan" call on 121.50 Mhz

To Claim:

List the items covered on the refresher and get the instructor to sign your log book
Photocopy your log book page
Ask a club member to verify that the photocopy is a copy of the entry seen in your logbook by signing the PHOTOCOPY
on the photocopy write your name and which of the subsidies you are claiming
send the photocopy to the Treasurer
Please note that you can only claim a maximum of two subsidies in any one year