Open Aviation Briefings

Open Aviation Briefings, a sub-project of Open Aviation Solutions, aims to provide instructor briefings that can be re-used freely. More importantly, the briefings can be improved by aviators everywhere, helping to improve aviation safety and training into the future.

This project is clearly a work in progress. I’m beginning with the Australian Recreational Pilot License as that is the course that I’m training to teach as part of my instructor rating. I’ll continue adding RPL briefings as I prepare each for my own training and plan to continue adding further briefings if and when more people get involved. Until then, you can read more about me and my educational qualifications on OpenAviation.Solutions’s About page.

For non-technical information about Open Aviation Briefings see Open Aviation Solution’s overview of the briefings.

Free to use and modify

These briefings and the interactive components used within them are licensed so that they are free to use, adapt, and share — including for commercial purposes. You don’t need to ask permission or pay a fee. Though if you remix, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute your modified work under the same license terms.

For more information about the licensing of these briefings and the related projects see the Open Aviation Solutions licensing page.

Easy to use and modify

The briefings are designed so that any instructor can view, adapt, and contribute to them without specialised tools, though some learning is involved.

Slides run in any browser — each briefing is a self-contained web presentation. No app to install; just open the link or include them in your existing webpage and choose whether to view the slides on their own, or in presenter mode with the notes.

Slide content is plain text — slide content (text and images) are written in a plain text format which is easy to learn. Fixing errors and improving slides can be done from your web browser (more info to come).

Interactive visualisations are self-contained components — where slides include interactive elements (such as 3D force diagrams or performance charts), these are packaged as standard web components. A component is dropped into a slide with a single tag (e.g. <four-forces>), keeping the text of the slide source readable while hiding the complexity of the interactivity.

Get started and view the briefs for lesson 05 of the Recreational Pilot License - Slow flight and stalling.