Operations Manual

[Guardian44]

Hi everyone-

I'm new on the commercial side of flying, and I'm trying to get started with my business. I come from a public safety background, and everything we do at my agency is based on policies. We have policies and operation manuals for everything.

So, being from that mindset, do any of you who are small operations (aka- it's just me!) have anything resembling an operations manual, or policies? I've seen some insurance questions that seem to indicate a discount for having certain procedures (emergency, takeoff, landing, etc) in place.

Clearly, I'm not going to have a multi-volume, spiral bound operations manual, but should I have some written documentation in place as a safeguard?

Thanks
-Eric

 

[PatR]

First develop some basic checklists around preflight and maintenance and from there you have some groundwork for SOP documentation. Safety and incident reporting can also be helpful. Just don’t let the “process documentation” overwhelm actual operations.

 

[LUIS MARTINEZ]

Hi everyone-

I'm new on the commercial side of flying, and I'm trying to get started with my business. I come from a public safety background, and everything we do at my agency is based on policies. We have policies and operation manuals for everything.

So, being from that mindset, do any of you who are small operations (aka- it's just me!) have anything resembling an operations manual, or policies? I've seen some insurance questions that seem to indicate a discount for having certain procedures (emergency, takeoff, landing, etc) in place.

Clearly, I'm not going to have a multi-volume, spiral bound operations manual, but should I have some written documentation in place as a safeguard?

Thanks
-Eric

PM me.

 

[Fred Garvin]

This is a good 4 book series that's loaded with policy and procedure templates:

Amazon.com

smile.amazon.com

 

[skiptv]

When I film at Construction Sites or on Movie Sets, we follow the OSCHA guidelines, for safety. As for developing your own guidelines in addition to those, look at the AMA American Model Association.

 

[Fred Garvin]

.....As for developing your own guidelines in addition to those, look at the AMA American Model Association......

AMA = Academy of Model Aeronautics.

 

[skiptv]

AMA = Academy of Model Aeronautics.

That too. lol I knew it was something like that. thanks