Hanga Talk Miles Dunagan Appointed President of NEMSPA
The National EMS Pilots Association (NEMSPA) recently appointed Miles Dunagan as their next president. He took over his duties in September of 2016.
Dunagan is a veteran fixed-wing and rotary-wing commercial pilot of some 27 years with over 8,000 hours of pilot-in-command flight time. He has been involved in the helicopter air ambulance industry for the past 10 years, and has been a board member of NEMSPA since 2014. He is a certified flight instructor and a graduate of the Transportation Safety Institute course on safety management systems. He is also a graduate of the AAMS Safety Academy, is a certified medical transport safety professional and has served on the AAMS Safety Council since 2014.
“I am thrilled with this opportunity” commented Dunagan. “NEMSPA has spearheaded numerous initiatives over the years which have made a positive impact on the air ambulance and aviation industries. I am extremely proud to be a part of this aviation brotherhood and sisterhood and look forward to NEMSPA continuing to lead the way and push the envelope for better safety, risk mitigation, training, and infrastructure improvements. One area that I really want to focus on over the next few years is line orientation flight training or LOFT.” In their position paper, “An Opportunity to
Improve,” submitted to the NTSB during the 2009 HEMS hearings, NEMSPA addressed as
LOFT a key training
component that was being significantly underutilized. “We want to work directly with the FAA and the NTSB in designing air ambulance specific LOFT
scenarios
that are based on past air ambulance accidents.
This
will provide better real-world
opportunities.
training I
have no doubt that NEMSPA’s members and our board of directors will meet these challenges head on and continue to make a positive impact on our industry.”
ASU Delivers 21 Night Vision Video Cameras to the Army National Guard as Part of the Company’s New GSA Ecliptus Program
Aviation Specialties Unlimited (ASU) recently delivered 21 customized Ecliptus night vision video cameras to the Army National Guard as part of the company’s new GSA Ecliptus program. The Ecliptus is a wireless, recording, and imaging night vision camera ideal for nighttime documentation, surveillance, and video production.
The Army National Guard has unique special mission training and evaluation requirements,” said ASU President Jim Winkel. “ASU’s off-the-shelf Ecliptus was recently selected by the Guard for use as a low-light mission recording tool. Part of the beauty of Ecliptus is its very small form factor. We were able to leverage its small size, as our team of engineers developed a custom solution to satisfy all of the Guard’s requirements.”
The Ecliptus offers a 40-degree field of view, weighs less than one pound, is integrated with the GoPro® Hero 4, and captures images at 12 megapixels with a burst mode at 30 frames per second. It captures night vision images utilizing a military grade AN/PVS-14 objective lens, records in ultra-high definition (4X HD), and stores these images using a 16 GB SD card. Images and video can also be viewed in real time using WiFi enabled smart devices. The camera modes can be controlled using the
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GoPro button controls, as well as from mobile devices with the GoPro app.
“Knowing that the Ecliptus products are being used to serve and protect our nation by the Army National Guard is something that inspires our entire company,” said Dr. Joe Estrera, ASU chief technology officer. “The Ecliptus is a great product, but it is just the beginning of our capabilities. If an agency has specific needs, we have the team, technology, and resources to make the Ecliptus a highly effective, economically viable, and mission critical device.”
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