Approach flying with the utmost seriousness and diligence, recognizing that your life and the lives of your passengers and others depend on you.

Recognize, accept and plan for the costs of implementing proper safety practices (often greater than expected).

Identify prevailing conditions and adapt to changing in-flight conditions based on sound principles of airmanship and risk management.

Recognize, accept and plan for the costs of implementing proper safety practices (often greater than expected).

Develop, use, periodically review and refine personal checklists and personal minimums for all phases of flight operations. Seek the input and review of these materials by a certificated flight instructor. 

Parachute. Review the POH guidelines for deploying the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) and consider your personal criteria for its use.

Personal Wellness. Commit to making personal wellness a precondition of flying; for example, by using the "I'M SAFE" checklist before each flight.

Know your personal susceptibility to hypoxia (for example, via oxymeter); carry supplemental oxygen on flights where its use may benefit you or your passengers; and establish oxygen personal minimums; for example, daytime above 8,000 ft. MSL and nighttime above 5,000 ft. MSL.

See and be seen. Employ techniques for seeing other aircraft, such as scanning, and techniques to enhance your own visibility to avoid other aircraft, such as the use of radio, lights, and strobes.

Minimize turns and maneuvers below 500 feet AGL (except as required for landings and obstacle departure procedures).

Comply with or exceed the requirements for mandatory inspections and Airworthiness Directives (ADs), and voluntarily adhere to manufacturers' recommended inspections, service bulletins, and checklists.

Cross-country operations. Identify alternate landing sites and available fuel along the planned route prior to departure in case deteriorating weather or other emergency circumstances make continued flight unsafe.

Personal minimums. Minimum descent altitude/decision height (MDA/ DH) - exercise extreme caution and voluntarily limit approaches where ceilings are under 800 ft. AGL and visibility is under 1 mi. for straight-in approaches or ceilings are under 1,000 ft. AGL and visibility is under 3 mi. for circling approaches.

Personal minimums: Circling. Never execute a circling approach at night unless there is no alternative and you are capable of safely executing such an approach. In deteriorating weather conditions and at night, observe higher minimums.

Personal minimums: Approaches. Limit approaches to a maximum of two (under the same or deteriorating weather conditions) and do not prematurely cancel IFR. In an unstable approach inside the Final Approach Fix in IMC, execute the missed approach procedure.

Personal minimums: Departures. Select a "departure alternate" landing site (for emergency landing just after departure), and depart only in conditions above applicable arrival or departure minimums (unless a nearby airport has an available ILS).

Personal minimums: Night operations. Recognize the increased risks associated with night operations and fly IFR whenever practical at night (if rated and proficient).