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Flight School Security Awareness Training

General Aviation

The Interim Final Rule, Flight Training for Aliens and Other Designated Individuals; Security Awareness Training for Flight School Employees, requires flight schools to ensure that each of its flight school employees who has direct contact with students (including flight instructors, ground instructors, chief instructors and administrative personnel who have direct contact with students) receives both initial and recurrent security awareness training.  Flight schools may either choose to use TSA’s security awareness training program or develop their own program.  If a flight school chooses to develop its own program, the program must adhere to standards in the rule.  

For current employees (those employees employed by the flight school as of January 18, 2005), initial training must be completed no later than January 18, 2005.  For employees hired after January 18, 2005, initial training must be completed no later than 60 days after the date of hire.  Recurrent training must be provided to employees each year in the same month as the month they received initial training.

Flight School Security Awareness (FSSA) Training module:

• Flight School Security Awareness Training (swf, 40Mb)
• Recurrent Flight School Security Awareness Training Exemption (pdf, 1.9Mb)
• Recurrent Flight School Security Awareness Training Module (pdf, 91Kb)

Download a FSSA Training module:

• FSSA-extract.zip (zip, 39Mb)

The Flight School Security Awareness (FSSA) training module is now also available in limited quantities on CD.  If you are unable to complete the training on-line and would like a FSSA-CD mailed to you, E-mail your name and shipping address to the TSA Flight School Security Awareness Training Coordinator. You may contact the help desk at (703) 542-1222 with any questions that you might have.