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Departments Features Index of Advertisers Summer 2018 rotor.org Serving the International BY THE INDUSTRY Helicopter Community FOR THE INDUSTRY Jim Wisecup HAI Chairman 2018–19 Drone Training Tips Page 28 New Tech for Maintainers Page 38 Make the Connection March 4–7, 2019 • Atlanta Georgia World Congress Center Exhibits Open March 5–7 Apply for exhibit space at heliexpo.rotor.org LOTTERY 2 Open to All Companies APPLY BY Sept. 7, 2018 WITH PAYMENT heliexpo.rotor.org EXHIBIT NOW MISSION READY AT ALL LEVELS. LOCAL, STATE, FEDERAL AND 30,000 FEET. Versatile, cost efficient and effective, the PC-12 NG Spectre has become the go-to platform for law enforcement agencies throughout North America. With its pressurized cabin and high-altitude ceiling, it prowls undetected, standing off at safe distances and staying on station for more than eight hours. Whatever your mission – surveillance, transport, border protection, airborne patrol – the Spectre is ready. Pilatus Business Aircraft Ltd • +1 303 465 9099 • www.pilatus-aircraft.com PIL1016_Rotor_MissionReady.indd 1 10/6/2016 4:48:34 PM Helicopter Association International ® Serving the International Helicopter Community Summer 2018 rotor.org SUMMER 2018 Serving the International BY THE INDUSTRY Helicopter Community FOR THE INDUSTRY Jim Wisecup HAI Chairman About the cover: Jim Wisecup, assistant chief pilot for Air Methods Corporation, 2018–19 DS Drone O H is HAI’s new chairman for 2018–19. Jim talks about his 31 years in the helicopter Training Tips Page 28 ET New Tech for air ambulance sector and the issues facing the helicopter industry in a profile Maintainers M Page 38 R I A 12 beginning on p. 12. Features Jim Wisecup: HAI’s New Chairman ......................................................................12 HAI Welcomes 2018–19 Board of Directors .......................................................18 Where Is the SH09? Kopter Gears Up to Deliver .............................................22 Learning to Fly Drones .............................................................................................28 KOPTER Smart Glasses: Helicopter MRO with “Vision” .................................................38 22 HAI Aids HEC Operators with FAA Exemptions ............................................42 Hot Topics in Finance and Leasing ........................................................................44 Visit the American Helicopter Museum and Education Center ...................46 Accident Recovery: Direct-to Disaster .................................................................52 I A Departments BENNETT/H K Chairman’s Letter ............................................................................................................. 4 MAR President’s Message......................................................................................................... 6 28 Flight Operations ............................................................................................................. 8 Government Affairs........................................................................................................10 Flight Path........................................................................................................................56 Calendar of Events.........................................................................................................59 Last Hover .......................................................................................................................60 HFI Update ......................................................................................................................62 X I Index of Advertisers ........................................................................................................63 VUZ The Last Word .................................................................................................................64 38 ROTOR® magazine invites its readers to submit articles about the international helicopter community for publication. The publisher reserves the right of final approval based on subject matter and space availability. Letters to the editor are also welcome. For information about submissions, please contact Gina Kvitkovich, director of publications and media, at 703-683-4646 or [email protected]. Summer 2018 Vol. 31 No. 2 Publisher Matthew S. Zuccaro Tee up for Associate Publisher Edward F. DiCampli HAI HELI-EXPO2019! Editor Gina Kvitkovich Assistant Editor HFI Scholarship Golf Tournament Jenna Scafuri Graphic Design Sunday, March 3, 2019 • Atlanta Registration Opens Fall 2018 Contributors PJ Barbour Mark Bennett Cade Clark HAI Finance and Leasing Committee David Jack Kenny Gina Kvitkovich Allison McKay Zac Noble Multiple sponsorships available. John Persinos Martin J. 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HAI members receive a subscription to ROTOR ONLY HAI MEMBERS SAVE $25 on their as a membership benefit. The subscription price for residents of the United States and its possessions is KING Online Helicopter Flight Instructor $15 per year; foreign subscriptions are $25 per year. All correspondence should be addressed to ROTOR, Refresher Course (FIRC), so head to HAI, 1920 Ballenger Avenue, 4th Floor, Alexandria, VA 22314-2898. rotor.org/SaveOnFIRC to take your Postmaster: Please send address changes to: course today. ROTOR® 1920 Ballenger Aveue, 4th Floor, Alexandria, VA 22314-2898 Questions? Contact [email protected]. 703-683-4646 | [email protected] www.rotor.org Summer 2018 3 Chairman’s Letter By Jim Wisecup Threats … and Opportunities s this is my first column as However, things are Yes, there will be times when we A chairman of HAI, let me changing. won’t have a perfect solution to a introduce myself. My name is Drones, or noise complaint. But if we do all that James Wisecup. Most people unmanned aircraft we can to minimize the noise impact call me Jim. systems (UAS), of our operations, it will go a long I began flying helicopters seem to be the way to improve our relations with our in 1969 in the US Army. After latest technology neighbors. We need to both model and a fairly brief active-duty army threatening our teach these behaviors to new pilots as career, I spent a few years industry. But are well as the more experienced ones. in the National Guard and they really a threat? Another issue is the pilot and Army Reserve in my home Yes, they will maintenance technician shortage. state of Texas. After my army service, increasingly take over surveillance, There are many factors affecting I flew for offshore operations in the inspection, and reconnaissance the personnel scarcity. Training Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, the missions. But that makes sense. is expensive, the military is not North Atlantic, the South China Sea, These often mundane missions producing as many qualified people and offshore California before shifting can, in many cases, be done more as in the past, and the competition to the helicopter air ambulance safely, economically, and efficiently for talent from the fixed-wing world is (HAA) sector. with UAS. greater than ever. I was a line pilot, check airman, and We tend to get rigid about how we We need to actively get into our then chief pilot for Rocky Mountain have “always” done things. Instead local communities and reach out to Helicopters, which was the largest of telling those drone-flying kids to younger individuals to educate them HAA operator at the time. I am get off of our lawns, however, let’s about the opportunities available in currently an assistant chief pilot for remember two things: First, there the helicopter world. Without pilots Air Methods Corporation, one of are still missions that can only be and maintenance technicians to fly the largest air medical companies in done by helicopters — our industry and operate our machines, the rotors the world. may change but it’s not going away. won’t keep turning. Please consider Safety