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VAI brought together nearly 200 members from across the vertical aviation community for a Mar. 23 member roundtable on the operational and safety impacts of recent changes to US airspace rules.

The inaugural VAI Southeast Asia Aviation Safety Conference will feature sessions on advanced aeronautical decision-making with Bruce Webb, senior director of education and community outreach for Airbus Helicopters, and Chris Hill, VAI senior director of safety; VFR best practices, decision-making and IIMC (inadvertent entry into instrument meteorological conditions), and estimating distance with Michael Becker, director of Becker Helicopters Pilot Academy; and much more. The conference takes place May 27–29 in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

The FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) virtual webinar, which will discuss the new VAI safety campaign and feature the United States Helicopter Safety Team’s Chris Baur, takes place Saturday, Apr. 4, at 10:00 am eastern (UTC-4).

The company’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facility in Latrobe is now fully operational and conducting final preparations for the delivery of Airbus H145 D3s to Life Flight Network and CareFlite.

The delivery of an experimental fly-by-wire Sikorsky H-60MX Black Hawk represents the capstone achievement of the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System program.

A team from the OEM showed how 5G cellular infrastructure can double as real-time drone detection using a prototype system known as NetSense. The system turns commercial networks into an added layer of safety capable of identifying aerial intrusions in crowded or complex environments.

The agency is requesting public comments by Apr. 22 on its plans to collect information from airport/droneport operators, OEMs, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) vendors, and other stakeholders. The FAA will use the data to catalog current and planned droneport planning, design, and infrastructure needs in the United States and identify which airports are integrating UAS operations.

(Onscene.TV) – Two San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department helicopter crews assisted fire department officials with rescuing a group of hikers from a trail Mar. 21 near Hesperia.

(Yahoo News) – A crew from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office in New York performed a skid rescue of a goldendoodle from the middle of the Seneca River Mar. 23 after advising the dog’s owner not to jump into the water.