Free Helicopter Safety Assessment Tools
Six free tools for the environments where mistakes are not recoverable, built from real low-level and utility flight experience.
Score your risk, plan your landing zone, build your personal minimums. Each tool works on your phone, in the truck, before the flight.
Low-Level Risk Assessment
Score your mission across wire environment, crew, light, terrain, and currency before you fly. Every answer generates a specific briefing item, and critical factors are flagged individually.
Start Assessment ›LZ Selection Assessment
Fourteen criteria across five categories. Work them before you commit to the landing zone. The LZ that looks fine from a thousand feet is the one that surprises you at fifty.
Assess an LZ ›Wire Environment Survey Guide
A guided walk-through for reading a utility corridor before you fly it. Built from 5,000+ powerline hours. Step by step, with field notes from the cockpit at every stage.
Start the Survey ›Personal Minimums Builder
Build written personal minimums for low-level operations, then print the card. Minimums decided at the kitchen table hold up better than minimums negotiated in the cockpit.
Build Your Card ›Training Gap Audit
A readiness self-audit for flight departments and operators. Assess crew training, wire strike preparation, and CRM protocols, and see exactly where the gaps are.
Run the Audit ›Printable Checklists
The LLOA Pre-Flight Hazard Checklist and the Utility Pilot Preflight & Cockpit Briefing Checklist, formatted for print. For the clipboard, the kneeboard, and the audit binder.
Get the Checklists ›Train where the margin ends.
These tools cover single decisions. ESAT™ Low-Level Obstacle Avoidance covers the whole environment. Twelve modules built from 39 years and 11,500+ hours.
Explore ESAT™ Training ›These tools are educational planning aids provided by Aviation Resource Consulting. They do not replace aircraft performance data, operator procedures, regulatory requirements, or the judgment of the pilot in command.