Definition
In scenario-based training, the actions a pilot can take and the tools, information, or people they can call on to reduce or eliminate an identified risk before or during a flight. Mitigation strategies are the planned responses to a hazard; resources are the assets — internal and external — that make those responses possible.
Plain English
These are the ways a pilot can lower a risk and the things or people they can use to help. The strategy is what you decide to do about a problem. The resources are what you have available to do it with.
Context Anchor
Seen in scenario-based training worksheets, instructor discussions, and debriefs when a learner is asked how they would manage the risks in a flight situation.
Derivation
Mitigation comes from the Latin mitigare, meaning to soften or make less severe. In aviation it keeps that sense — softening the impact of a risk rather than removing it entirely. Resources comes from the Old French resourdre, to rise again or recover, and refers to anything you can draw on when needed.
Why Pilots Care
Using them keeps training safe and prevents small issues from turning into real problems or bad habits.
Grounding Statement
The key idea is: identify the risk, then name what you will do or use to reduce it.
Intuition Check
Do not read this as a vague list of safety tips. In this training context, mitigation strategies and resources are specific actions and specific forms of help matched to the risk in front of you.
Example Sentence 1
For the risk of fatigue on a long cross-country, the student listed delaying departure as the mitigation strategy and a rested co-pilot as the key resource.
Example Sentence 2
The student applied the listed mitigation strategies and resources to handle the unexpected weather change during the cross-country scenario.