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Safety Portal

Proactive safety work for safer flying

Since Skånska Gyrokopterklubben was founded we have proactively worked to improve our procedures and thereby make training and flying safer, more efficient and more enjoyable. All material published on the SGK Safety Portal may be reproduced and used freely with attribution to the source. Modification of the original material is not permitted. If you have opinions about the quality of the material that you would like to share with us, contact us at skola@gyroflyg.se.

The Safety Portal is part of the club's ongoing safety work.

0. Introduction

A detailed review of several years of incidents in Sweden and the EU involving gyroplanes shows that at least one of the following three phenomena was present in the chain of causation that led to the flight ending in a completely different way than the pilot intended.

1. Rotor handling

2. Weather

3. Aircraft performance and human factors

Training manuals

  • UHB 12 UL-Gyroplane — Training Manual — Practical training
  • Student Handbook UL-Gyroplane A PDF copy is also available on KSAK's website.
  • The book "Instructor Guidelines UL-Gyroplane" is available to the club's authorised instructors via the club's login and to other instructors via KSAK.
  • UHB0 Training Manual UL certificate — general information

SGK supplement to the UL-Gyroplane Student Handbook

In January 2024, KSAK published a revised edition of the "UL-Gyroplane Student Handbook". Further detail on some topics can be found in our member library:

Incident reporting

Other resources

Other information and tools that will hopefully help gyroplane pilots across the country broaden their knowledge and become better pilots: