Due to the confidentiality requirements of discussing aviation security in a public forum, we will limit the material presented for security reasons. However, there are some very important aspects your company needs to take into consideration when implementing the FFDO program. We can offer a much more thorough presentation on these subjects during a meeting with your company personnel. If, after reading this material there are any questions please call or e-mail us at the numbers listed below and we would be glad to discuss these issues further. However, with more sensitive security issues we will need to have a face to face meeting.

This course is designed for pilots who are Federal Flight Deck Officers or prospective Officers, which is, in effect, all the pilots at your airline. The Homeland Security Act prohibits interference with implementation of the program, but does not limit your influence over how the program is operated at your airline. Your airline can reasonably expect to have influence over certain aspects of the program. These pilots are employed at your airline and your airline can assure safety of the program by re-enforcing certain aspects of the FFDO program.

The TSA has established the training for FFDOs, but many of the technical aspects will no doubt be left up to your airline to solve. Many questions are going to come up with exactly how the FFDO pilots are going to interface with the crewmembers on the flight and other potential LEOs on the flight including FAMs. Don’t let many of these important procedural issues be decided when a security event is taking place.

This course will assist your airline on FFDO policy development, and will design a team concept into the methods all of crew must deal with when faced with a serious security incident.

Other important issues need to be addressed such as use of force by FFDOs aboard your airline’s aircraft. For example, FFDOs receive one week of training, including proper use of force procedures. Compare this to professional police agencies, where officers receive in excess of twenty weeks on many different aspects of the law and use of force policies and procedures. Among other things, this course is designed to remind these pilots of the awesome responsibility they have under the law to exercise restraint and discretion in a use of force incident.

The federal use of force continuum is the centerpiece of this course for FFDOs, and assists all the crewmembers in understanding what the legal limits are for all of them. Indeed, there certainly are limits, and if they are not discussed and sorted out then your airline and crews can suffer both criminally and/or civilly.