director of Advanced Technology Initiatives. “Working with an industry leader like Bell validates our investment and highlights all the hard work and success our team has had to date.” “We are proud and excited to be a part of the CNO UASIPP team,” says Scott Drennan, Bell’s vice president, Innovation. “This agreement will enable us to continue to test our vehicles and work in a collaborative eff ort with CNO and the FAA to improve aviation technologies and achieve new possibilities together.” Future missions for the CNO UASIPP team include
advanced drone operations — including BVLOS — for agricultural applications, public safety operations, infrastructure inspections, safe operations over people, and weather-related missions.
U.S. HELICOPTER SAFETY TEAM INITIATIVES AIM
TO CUT DOWN FATAL HELICOPTER ACCIDENTS The arrow is pointing in the right direction — downward. Over the past two decades, the U.S. helicopter fatal accident rate has been cut in half, from 1.27 fatal accidents per 100,000 fl ights to 0.63.
However, the industry has hit a plateau during 2018 and 2019. Fatal accidents in the U.S. are continuing at approximately the same level. To reduce the number of fatal accidents even
more, the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (www.
USHST.org) has been working diligently on developing safety enhancements based on the accidents it has analyzed. Many of the initiatives are now ready to be advanced forward. During 2019, the USHST developed and
promoted a white paper showing how UAS (drones) can supplement and support manned helicopters in high-risk operations and environments. Last month, the team released two new
airmanship bulletins on the Vortex Ring State and on Power Available Limitations. The USHST continues to provide face-to-face safety education and safety material distribution at industry events — most recently at the CHC Safety Summit in Dallas and at the National Agricultural Aviation Association convention in Orlando. The USHST is ready to release a best practices document off ering guidelines for prefl ight inspections and fi nal walk-arounds. A USHST team also is completing work on a
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proposed Advisory Circular regarding the use of simulation to rehearse at-risk scenarios and develop safe decision-making.
Another USHST team is completing research
papers providing extensive safety information for pilots about enhanced vision systems and stability augmentation systems.
The USHST is collaborating with the GAJSC to
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promote their new reference tool for pilots about how impairment can be caused by certain over- the-counter medications. In order to reinforce a culture of safety among pilots within the helicopter community, the USHST is working with the FAASTeam to present a nationwide series of “Go Local” workshops. The two-hour session dives deeply into one specifi c helicopter accident, discusses the tragedy of lost lives, and helps pilots see that many operational decisions are not black and white choices. Workshops have been hosted by FAASTeam managers in Phoenix and Fort Worth and we have FAASTeam commitments for 2020 in these 12 cities: Little Rock, Milwaukee, Memphis, Oakland, Salt Lake City, Baton Rouge, Denver, Houston, Columbia SC, Greensboro NC, Washington DC, and Portland, OR. Detailed information about proposed USHST safety enhancements aimed at reducing the number of fatal accidents can be found at
www.USHST.org.
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