Last fall at the Ag Aviation Expo, NAAREF hosted a safety session focused on how relationships may affect pilot safety. The session was very well received by the pilots and spouses in attendance—so much so that NAAA would like to give all operators, ag pilots and their spouses or significant others the opportunity to answer the survey questions NAAREF developed.

Adapted versions of NAAREF’s questions are available for a limited time in the form of two similar surveys specifically tailored for operators and pilots and their life partners. Like NAAREF’s safety session, the purpose of these short surveys, which only take a few minutes, is to consider how relationships at home may affect pilot safety.

Most NAAA Operator and Pilot members have already received a direct invitation by email to participate in the pilot version of the Ag Aviators “Relationship Drift” Survey. If you are an operator or ag pilot who has not already taken this online survey, we invite you to do so by accessing the pilot survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/relationship-survey-agpilots.

Furthermore, if you have another operator or pilot on staff that you feel should also complete this survey, please share the operator/pilot survey link with them at www.surveymonkey.com/r/relationship-survey-agpilots.

Most NAAA Support members also received a direct invitation by email to participate in the spouse/life partner version of NAAA’s Ag Aviators “Relationship Drift” Survey. However, that pool is significantly smaller than NAAA’s Operator and Pilot membership categories. For that reason, we encourage operators and pilots to ask your spouse or significant other to take the spouse/life partner version of NAAA’s Ag Aviators “Relationship Drift” Survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/relationship-survey-agspouse.

Moreover, if you would like to share NAAA’s relationship survey with the spouses/life partners of other ag pilots you know, they too may take the spouse/life partner version of the relationship survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/relationship-survey-agspouse.

The results of the ag pilot and spouse relationship surveys will be published in Agricultural Aviation. All responses are completely confidential and will be reported in aggregate form only.