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| 11.01.2009 |
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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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Eurocopter Donauwörth: Keeping Busy Through Marketing Diversity
SERVICES/MAINTENANCE A visitor to Eurocopter Deutsch- land’s Helicopter Technology Park, with about 5,200 workers and engineers the chief employer in this picturesque Bavarian town, hardly senses there’s a world economic crisis underway. A German...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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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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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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| 10.01.2009 |
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Methodology: Understanding Number One
Air Methods bills itself as the "World’s Largest Air Ambulance Operator" for a very good reason: It is. The numbers tell the tale. Air Methods flew 105,971 missions in 2008, serving 42 U.S. states...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Marine One: The End Game
Numerous obituaries have been written about the VH-71 Presidential Helicopter program. What if those death notices are premature? While the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) cancelled the VH-71 Presidential...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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North to Alaska
Alaska’s North Slope Borough Search and Rescue team’s legacy Bell 412 gets a complete Cobham EFIS upgrade, including the world’s first single-pilot IFR approval for synthetic vision in a helicopter. The...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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UK Refits Helicopter Force for Afghanistan
The United Kingdom hopes a series of upgrades to their current helicopter fleet will help them meet the challenging Afghan climate. The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) operates a fleet of 586 helicopters...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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NVGs Made Simple
If you ask pilots about Night Vision Goggles (NVGs), you will normally get one of two responses: I wouldn’t fly at night without them or I have no interest in flying with them, period! Perhaps you are...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Show Preview: 'Keep Calm & Carry On'
The world still needs rotorcraft and Europe’s Helitech will reflect a resilient market. More than 45 companies will make their debut at Helitech 2009 as it returns to England this month. The majority are...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Night Vision Goggle Training: Civilian vs. Military
Options abound for training in the use of night vision goggles. Similarities and stark differences exist between the civilian and military approaches. Rotor & Wing takes a comprehensive look at those...
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| 08.01.2009 |
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Design Challenge: Franco-German Heavy Lift
France and Germany want to procure a common heavy lift helicopter. This will be a difficult and ambitious task given the numerous needs of both countries. To say that it is an ambitious product would be an...
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| 08.01.2009 |
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Water Birds: Safety & Training for Offshore Operators
Weather, mechanical failure, airspace congestion, crowded helidecks, fuel issues, crane operations, take your pick. Constant vigilance and anticipation of dire consequences are your companions for all offshore flights....
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| 08.01.2009 |
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Paris Air Show Report
This year’s show gave rotorcraft a rare opportunity to shine in its own right. One welcome by-product of the global recession is that this year’s Paris Air Show was largely free of the boring succession of...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Airborne Wants and Needs: Wanted Police Equipment
In the teeth of a worldwide recession, the word of the day for police forces — U.K. ones at least — is collaboration. In reality this has been the word for a year or more: traditional county constabularies...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Long Line Course: Vertical Reference
Flying without using the natural horizon is...well...unnatural. It seems pretty simple to the average helicopter pilot. But hauling a load under a helicopter isn’t something that can be done the first time...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Preventative Maintenance
Preventative Maintenance The FAA allows pilots to accomplish some maintenance on aircraft, the maintenance allowed is considered preventative maintenance and outlined in CFR Title 14, Part 43, Appendix A(c)...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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American Eurocopter: 40 Years of Innovation, Service and Growth in the United States
Each day across America, millions of people are able to look up and see one of the most visible champions for general aviation hard at work: the helicopter. Rotary-wing aircraft perform vital missions for the...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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ARH Program
The future of the ARH program hinges on a variety of vital decisions made by both the government and potential contract bidders. As we walked the floors of the annual Quad-A convention at the Opryland Convention Center last month, the most interesting topic...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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An Auspicious Occcasion: Paris Celebrates 100 Years of Air Shows
This year’s 100th show could prove to be a not-to-be-missed event. On June 15, the 2009 "Salon de L’Aéronautique et de L’Espace" will open, becoming the 48th Paris Air Show and celebrating its 100 anniversary since starting...
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