Skip to content
RISE
Book a demo

Flight risk assessment

Score a trip before it goes

28 weighted risk factors across crew, environment and equipment. Answer them for one trip and it scores as you go, tells you what drove the number, and hands you the thresholds to set it against.

What you get from the assessment

A weighted score28 factors across crew, environment and equipment, each carrying the weight it carries in the product rather than one point apiece.
What drove itThe factors that put the number where it is, listed back to you, so the conversation is about those rather than about the total.
Thresholds to set it againstThe thresholds RISE ships with, next to your score, so a number becomes a decision instead of a figure on its own.
A sheet for the cockpitThe same assessment on paper, for operations that still run this before a trip with a pen.

How it scores

What the score means

Every factor that applies to the trip adds its weight, so the top of the scale is 110 and a trip lands in one of three bands.

0 to 14
MildProceed with flight as planned.
0110
15 to 30
ModerateImplement mitigations before departure.
0110
31 and up
SevereDelay, modify, or cancel the flight until risks are addressed.
0110

These thresholds are the ones RISE ships with. Yours win.

Where a trip needs a second signature is an operator's decision, set per account in the product. Publishing one set of numbers as the correct ones would be telling an operation how to run its dispatch, so these are a starting point to argue with rather than an answer.

Your turn

Let’s get started

28 factors, answered for one trip. It scores as you go, and every factor needs an answer before it will rate the flight.

0 of 28 answeredScore 0

Pilot qualifications

Is the Captain's experience in type less than 200 hours?
Is the First Officer's experience in type less than 200 hours?
Has the Captain logged less than 100 hours in the last 90 days?
Has the First Officer logged less than 100 hours in the last 90 days?
Is this a single-pilot flight?
Will the duty day exceed 12 hours?
Will flight time exceed 8 hours within the duty day?
Did the crew receive less than 10 hours of rest before the duty day?

Operating environment

Is this a winter operation?
Is this a twilight operation?
Is this a night operation?
Is stopping distance greater than 80% of available runway?
Is this a repositioning flight?
Is this a pop-up trip?
Is this an international operation?
Is there no weather reporting at the destination?
Are thunderstorms present at departure and/or destination?
Is there severe turbulence?
Is ceiling & visibility at destination less than 500 ft./2 sm?
Is there heavy rain at departure and/or destination?
Is there frozen precipitation at departure and/or destination?
Is icing going to be a factor?
Are surface winds greater than 30 knots?
Are crosswinds greater than 15 knots?
Is runway braking action less than optimal?

Equipment

Special Flight Permit operation?
Are there MEL/CDL items affecting this flight?
Are there special flight limitations based on AFM equipment limitations?

28 factors still to answer.

On paper

The blank form

The same 28 factors as a one page sheet, for operations that still run this before a trip with a pen. The print dialog saves it as a PDF.

Discover how RISE can empower your safety program

A guided walkthrough of how RISE handles reporting, evaluation, resolution and insight, with time to talk about how your own operation runs today.

Book a demo