COPA Safety and Education Foundation / COPA University

 

The COPA Safety and Education Foundation is a non-profit foundation whose main objective is to provide continuing education and to increase safety for general aviation pilots. The foundation and its activities are aimed at all general aviation pilots and aircraft, especially pilots flying so-called "Technically Advanced Aircraft (TAA) - i.e. aircraft equipped with at least a combination of GPS navigators and autopilots.

 

COPA University currently addresses important safety-related topics in 6 Colleges:

Aviation Safety - Investigating accidents and incidents of TAA aircraft to draw conclusions on better handling of advanced TAA systems.

 

Advanced Avionics - Dealing with advanced cockpits and navigators - from GNS430 to IFD440, GTN650, Aspen Evolution, Sandel EHSI to integrated cockpits with Avidyne Entegra, Cirrus Perspective or Avidyne R9.

 

Flight Operations - Everything about weather, including satellite weather in the cockpit, normal, abnormal and emergency procedures, IFR procedures, pre-flight and in-flight aeronautical decision making (ADM), and the legal aspects of our flying.

 

Aircraft Technology - Everything from engines, propellers, airframes, systems, proper leaning, typical failure modes in our aircraft, to inspections and borescope interpretation.

 

Flight Simulation - in several modern procedure trainers, as well as in a full-motion simulator (the latter only at courses in Poznan), pilots train with flight instructors in critical and demanding scenarios, including those that we do not want or are not allowed to do in the cockpit.

 

Practical Flight - this is where it all comes together, where we apply in the aircraft what was learned and practiced on the ground.

Here is the updated list of topics that will be covered at the 2022 EDSB CPPP:

         

       32 reasons why the pattern circuit is important - using 32 accidents as examples

          Automation Management - the right way to handle GPS, FMS and Autopilot

       Performance Based Navigation (PBN) - the new IFR procedures

            Chart Clinic

       In-Flight Weather Tactics 

            Command and Control 

       Avionics Classes - GNS, G1000, Perspective, Perspective+

            Avionics Workshops with new simulators - GNS, G1000, Perspective+

       Engine Data and Oil Analysis

 

 

 

 

The COPA University Simulator Laboratory

The COPA University laboratory workshop uses the latest versions of the RealSimGear Procedure Trainers. The simulated aircraft can be configured with various avionics, including the Avidyne Entegra cockpit with Garmin GNS430 and GTN650 navigators, or the Garmin Perspective and Perspective+ systems. Expect much improved simulation over the previous trainers !

In addition, an Avidyne R9 Procedure Trainer can be made available upon prior request.

 

 

 

 

A new sim session, Loading, Activating, and Executing Instrument Approaches, reviews best practices for approach planning, and give participants a "Better Approach to their Approach". They then will have the opportunity to fly three different instrument approaches to increase their knowledge and proficiency.

There will be two to four procedure trainers at each CPPP event and slots will be filled on a first come, first served basis.