PCA Safety Seminar

PCA will not be hosting a safety seminar in 2024.

We have found several online seminars which are now open for registration. If additional seminars are scheduled, we'll list them here as well.

*Highland Balloon Repair / Gardnerville, NV - February 24, 2024

*GEBA Continuing Education Seminar - March 2, 2024

*Highland Balloon Repair Online Seminar - March 23, 2024

*Pacific Northwest Safety Seminar - March 23, 2024


Previous PCA Safety Seminar - Presentations Material


Printable/Downloadable presentation materials will be made available once we have them by individual links and once they are all available, by single .zip file download.

Right-click (control-click on a Mac) the link and choose “Save Link As...” to save the document(s) to your computer.

*The items below are from past seminars, but we include them here for review.


FAR - Presentation material from Jim Abell:
FAR Review - .pdf file 140 kb

Pilot Decision Making:


Weather: The following files are from our 2014 Safety Seminar and are kept available here for reference. Both of these files contain the same information and both of these are large downloads. The two per page version is smaller but also a little harder to see because the images are reduced in size. Whichever works best for you.
Helpful Weather Links - 1 per page 18.6 mb
Helpful Weather Links - 2 per page (smaller download) 12.3 mb