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August 2012 Serving the Worldwide Helicopter Industry rotorandwing.com Pilot Report: Eurocopter Era Training Center Profile Hot Blade Exercise in Europe Rotorcraft Training Guide When you fly helicopters, looking for trouble becomes a full-time job. That’s why you fly with Garmin® GTS™ traffic alerting. It can provide that “extra set of eyes” you need to help see-and-avoid other aircraft in busy airspace. Garmin’s GTS™ 800/820/850 family of ADS-B enhanced TAS and TCAS I systems are the only ones offering CLEAR CAS™ – a patented Garmin technology that correlates both active and passive surveillance (including 1090 MHz ADS-B “In”) to give you the best, most accurate picture of all the moving targets1 in your vicinity. Detail-rich display cues make for easier target identification and monitoring2 – while expanded audio alerts in an ATC-like spoken format (“Traffic. Two o’clock. High. 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Access Intelligence, LLC 4 Choke Cherry Rd., 2nd Floor Rockville, Md. 20850 - USA Phone: 1-301-354-2000, Fax: 1-301-354-1809 E-mail: [email protected] Visit us today at www.aviationtoday.com. 17279 AUGUST 2012 | ROTOR & WING MAGAZINE 3 WHEN LAW ENFORCERS Editor’s Notebook DEPEND ON IT, WE’RE RIGHT ALONGSIDE. Practice Makes Perfect By Andrew Parker [email protected] hat do Al Pacino, a squirrel From “What’s the Operating Status while performing a particular task in and a moose, the “human of the Most Critical System on Your his or her everyday life—along with Woperating system,” rogue Helicopter?” by IHST team member rogue management, operations, pilots, management, graphical Lee Roskop: aircrew and maintainers have no place world charts, lions and bears, danger- “Consider the importance of the in the profession of aviation.” ous behavior, SMS toolkits and safety ‘human system.’ The pilot (and crew, videos all have in common? OK, maybe if applicable) is arguably the most From “A Plea to Personal/Private those last two gave it away, but they’re important operating system on the Operators” by Lee Roskop: all subjects that have appeared in the helicopter. Yet, one of three scenarios “The number of helicopter acci- International Helicopter Safety Team’s typically is true when it comes to dents in the personal/private category recent “Safety Notes” campaign. assessing the health of the ‘human sys- is not at all proportionate to the num- Over the past three-plus months tem’ before each flight: 1). We don’t do ber of flight hours flown. In fact, there (since mid-April), IHST has been send- it, 2). We aren’t honest with ourselves if is a stunningly large gap between the ing out e-mails each week focusing on we do take the time to do it, or 3). We low percentage of U.S. helicopter hours different aspects of safety and training. don’t consistently take the right action flown in personal/private operations The group is falling short of its goal to even if we know our ‘system’ isn’t quite as compared to the high percentage of reduce helicopter accidents 80 percent right…” U.S. helicopter accidents. The bottom worldwide by 2016, but progress is still “When our system is operating at line in the comparison is that for the being made to push the trend down- its worst, it still has to be good enough 10 years analyzed, the personal/private ward, as the rate has decreased by 30 to handle the most challenging situ- category accounted for only about 5 percent in the past five years (since ation while we fly. None of us would percent of U.S. helicopter hours flown, 2006 when IHST began its accident ever think about taking an aircraft to fly yet resulted in 20 percent of the heli- reduction efforts) vs. 2001-2005. if maintenance told us that one of the copter accidents.” According to figures from the critical systems was only working at group, the worldwide civil accident less than 50 percent of what we could rate decreased from 9.7 accidents normally expect. Given the importance per 100,000 operating hours during of the ‘human system’ for safer flying Top 10 Ways to Prevent 2001-2005 to around 5.7 accidents per and preventing accidents, it’s impera- Helicopter Accidents 100,000 from 2006-2011. IHST’s target tive that we apply the same stringent (Source: IHST) is to bring that figure down to 1.9 acci- standard of minimum acceptable per- Good news for all law enforcement operators. Whatever dents per 100,000 by 2016. formance to our own bodies.” 1. Install cockpit recorders platforms you use for your search and rescue, Goodrich In addition to the SMS toolkits, 2. Improve autorotation training has a hoist that’s ready and available. safety videos, training tips, etc., there is From “How Safe is Dangerous?” by 3. Add advanced maneuvers to some really interesting material that’s IHST team member Scott Tyrrell: simulator training Whether you operate AS350s, EC145s or A109s, worth a look. August is one of the “Former pilot and internationally 4. Emphasize critical issues there’s a Goodrich hoist you can rely on to provide months that Rotor & Wing puts a heavy recognized expert in the field of avia- awareness in training the perfect solution. focus on training (features include “Era tion human error Tony Kern explains 5. Enhance aircraft performance Training Center Profile” on page 22, this issue succinctly: ‘Failures of flight & limitations training Goodrich is unique in providing the translating drum “Rotorcraft Training Guide” on page discipline can—in a single instant— 6. Strengthen emergency proce- technology, which has the highest reliability in the 30, “Hot Blade Exercise” on page 44, overcome years of skill development, dures training industry and no fleet angle restrictions. And Goodrich www.goodrich.com “Training News” on page 48 and “Safety in-depth systems knowledge and thou- 7. Implement a personal risk has the lowest life cycle costs. Watch” on page 52), so it’s appropriate sands of hours of experience.’ management program to highlight a few excerpts of what I’ve The aviation community must 8. Establish a mission-specific So whichever platforms fly your missions, depend on found interesting in reading through demand accountability at all levels so risk management program Goodrich to be right there with you. the IHST Safety Notes material. that full adherence to the highest level 9. Follow compliance of ICA Take a look at the IHST toolkits and of flight discipline will ensure the safest procedures For more information about Goodrich rescue hoists, safety programs at www.ihst.org, and flying environment.