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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TAWS
PRODUCTS/AVIONICS & INSTRUMENTS Helicopter accidents, especially those involving emergency medical services (EMS) flights, have been getting a lot of bad, but well-deserved press recently. The increasing number of helicopter EMS (HEMS) fatalities has also...
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Flying the Sikorsky S-92A With the Rotor Ice Protection System
United Technologies Corp. routinely flies its RIPS-equipped S-92A aircraft in known icing conditions in the U.S. CORPORATE/OPERATORS For the past 36 months, I’ve had an exciting and challenging opportunity to fly the Sikorsky S-92A in the northeastern...
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‘I Knew You Would Come’
In this issue you will find the winners of the 2009 Rotor & Wing Helicopter Heroism Awards. Being new to the rotor world, I have to say that reading these submissions and learning about the events for which our winners were chosen, left me awestruck. The...
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Rotorcraft Report: IHST Releases Recommendations to Reduce U.S. Helicopter Accidents
TRAINING/ACCIDENT PREVENTION U.S. helicopter accidents can be drastically reduced, and we have the fact-based recommendations to do it: That was the message at the International Helicopter Safety Symposium, held from Sept. 29-Oct. 2 in Montreal, Canada...
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Rotorcraft Report: Bell Taps Kaman for Composites
PRODUCTS/COMPONENTS Kaman Aerospace’s Helicopters division has won a $53-million contract to supply composite helicopter...
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Rotorcraft Report: NSTB Investigates EMS Crash
PUBLIC SERVICE/EMS U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are saying that an air medical helicopter that crashed in South Carolina on Sept. 25 did not have safety features recommended by experts. Three people—pilot Patrick Walters...
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Rotorcraft Report: MedCenter Air Orders Three EC135s
PUBLIC SERVICE/EMS Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas Medical Center has ordered three EC135s from American Eurocopter. The helicopters, which...
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Rotorcraft Report: Study Points to Improved EMS Procedures
TRAINING/EMS A MedEvac Foundation International study has found that five percent of urgent care patients experience a life-threatening event or, in rare cases, death while on air medical transport flights. Dr. Jeff Singh and co-author Dr. Russell MacDonald of...
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Rotorcraft Report: MissionMode to Serve Omniflight Fleet
PUBLIC SERVICE/EMS Omniflight Helicopters of Addison, Texas has selected MissionMode Solutions software to help with...
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Rotorcraft Report: SAR Awards Go to UK, Canadian Crews
PUBLIC SERVICE/SAR Two separate search and rescue (SAR) helicopter crews have been given awards in recent weeks. Sikorsky Aircraft has named an S-92 helicopter crew operating on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) the winner of its Winged...
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Rotorcraft Report: Coming Events
November 15–19: Dubai Airshow, Dubai, UAE. Contact Fairs & Exhibitions, phone +9714-286-7755 or visit http://www.dubaiairshow.aero November 30–December 1: Human Factors in Aviation Safety, Los Angeles, Calif. Contact USC Viterbi School of...
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Hot Products for the Month of November
FASTTrack Gets First Customer Calgary, Canada-based Absolute Fire Solutions has delivered its first FASTTrack system to Helicorp of Melbourne, Australia. The FASTTrack technology measures, records and transmits bucket and tank data, including the amount of...
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Rotorcraft Report: FAA Grants Production Certificate to Columbia
In front of a Model 107-II are (left to right) Chris Hankland, Columbia’s director of quality, FAA Inspector Aaron Kathman and Tim Vranna, manager of FAA’s Seattle Manufacturing and Inspection District Office with Columbia director of materials...
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Rotorcraft Report: Sikorsky System to Assist Oil Platform Landings
COMMERCIAL/OFFSHORE Sikorsky will be making life easier for S-92A pilots by giving them the capability to make hands-free IFR approaches towards offshore oil platforms. Scheduled for FAA/Transport Canada certification by year-end, the flight control computer...
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Rotorcraft Report: AW139 Tail Boom AD Issued
PRODUCTS/AIRFRAMES FAA has published an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) related to the tail boom of the AgustaWestland AW139 and AB139. According to a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) alert...
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Rotorcraft Report: Kazakhstan Helicopter Joint Venture Created
Sky Service Eurocopter EC135 operating in Kazakhstan. COMMERCIAL/OFFSHORE EADS and Eurocopter have partnered with Samruk-Kazyna to launch a public-private joint venture that will focus on...
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Rotorcraft Report: Heli-One Plans AW139 Repair Center
A CHC Europe AgustaWestland AW139 based in the Netherlands. SERVICES/MAINTENANCE Canadian helicopter support services provider Heli-One is planning to establish an AgustaWestland AW139 repair and overhaul...
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Rotorcraft Report: EASA Approves Bell Academy
TRAINING/CERTIFICATION Textron subsidiary Bell Helicopter has received European Aviation Safety Agency...
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The Different Faces of SAR Training
Priority 1 considers cross training, crew interoperability and teamwork as fundamental to its Class D basic hoist rescue course. TRAINING/SEARCH & RESCUE Search and rescue (SAR) is a crowded arena with many players—from the U.S. military...
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Crew Coordination, a Hallmark of Professional Aviation
MILITARY/TRAINING One of the most admirable aspects of military flying is the crew discipline and inter/intra-flight coordination employed day-to-day. Very early in a crew member’s training, certain fundamentals are drilled in. Among the most important...
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