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Key Safety Risk Areas for Microlights
The key risk areas for the Microlight sector is taken from the top Occurrence Categories as provided in Figure
37. The key risk areas are based on their ranking in terms overall number of accidents and serious incidents
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Loss of control – in flight (LOC‑I)
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Abnormal runway contact/Loss of control – ground/Runway excursions (ARC/LOC‑G/RE)
: ARC is of‑
ten a pre‑cursor to LOC‑G and RE occurrences, therefore for the purpose of considering safety issues
they have been combined.
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System Component Failure (SCF)
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Collisions during take‑off and landing (CTOL)
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Low altitude operations (LALT)
18 For a complete list of CICTT occurrence categories, refer to Appendix 1.