Stacy takes the reins of HAI during one of the industry’s
most turbulent years. Never one to shy away from a challenge, she’s ready to take it head-on. “My primary focus right now is returning the industry to
service,” she says. “Te novel coronavirus has set us back, and the entire industry around the world must recover. I believe it will be a slow, progressive recovery that will last longer than the one following 9/11.” Stacy wants to facilitate HAI’s support for its members
Stacy and some Executive Jet Management
colleagues: from left, Bill Rhoads, aviation maintenance
technician; Kyle
Pope, AW139 captain; Adrian Schippers,
AW139 captain; and Blair Payton, lead helicopter pilot.
during this recovery. How can the association help through information, education, resources, and other support? “I’d like to ask HAI members to help with this goal,” she
says. “Jim has asked the membership to tell him what they need, and I encourage everyone to write to
president@rotor.org and tell him. He’s the real deal. He’s listening and will tackle all he can, but he needs to hear from the membership. If there is a webinar you need, people you need to talk to, programs you need, speak up. If we’re not tackling things you need, please speak up.” Stacy also supports developing HAI’s international
presence. From her firsthand experiences, she understands the benefit of developing a standardized, global helicopter community. “Expanding the ‘I’ in HAI is a huge endeavor I believe in
very much,” she says. “We don’t want to be US-centric. It’s going to be work. Countries can’t unite, so getting the industry to unite is a real challenge. We should start with being more standardized with what we do and help other countries to build helicopter industries using standard global practices.” When it comes to the continual scrutiny facing the heli-
copter industry around safety, Stacy takes a moment to compose her thoughts. “My vision of safety is it should be naturally intertwined
in everything we do,” she says. “It has to be in our culture and in everything we do. I’ve been a safety manager in the military and in the civilian world. I want to change attitudes so we don’t think of safety as a separate thing. We should consider it a natural part of every single thing we do every day. Until we all can get to a place like that, we will continue to have issues around safety.”
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