This training is extracted from a presentation by Orrin "Kurt" Anderson, an Air Safety Investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board. The presentation was given in the Puget Sound area, sometime around 2003 (my best guess). Mr. Anderson has investigated a very large number of general aviation accidents that involved density altitude as one of the causal factors. This presentation describes a number of things, all involving to some degree density altitude, that pilots should, but often don't know.

Although most of his examples involve flying in the mountanous areas of the Pacific Northwest, the lessons are certainly applicable to pilots across the country.

This training is presented on 29 pages, each consisting of Mr. Anderson's audio narrative, and the accompanying text or graphic.

Navigation controls are located near the bottom of the screen. These controls let you control the AUDIO narration, go on to the NEXT page, or go BACK to the previous page.

The audio narration will start automatically after each page is loaded. After the narration starts, you can use the audio control to pause or play the narration. Some of these narrations are large, so please be patient as they load. The quality of the audio depends on the bandwidth available both on my server and your system. So, if the audio breaks up, try again later and it should work better. [Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm working to fix this.]

To start, click on the NEXT control.

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