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Our leadership and Advocacy teams will provide an update to VAI members about the FAA’s safety risk management panel regarding a recent order banning the use of visual separation between helicopters or powered-lift aircraft and other aircraft in US Class B and Class C airspace and in terminal radar service areas (TRSAs). The member roundtable starts at 12:00 pm eastern (UTC-4) tomorrow, Friday, Mar. 27.

The international aviation and space fair in Santiago, Chile, will include dedicated sessions about vertical aviation for the first time. Katia Veraza, VAI director of state government affairs and regional relations, will participate in one of the sessions led by ACHAV, the Chilean Association of Vertical Flight.

VAI joins nearly 50 other trade associations in the Modern Skies Coalition in urging Congress to stop essential work without pay, which jeopardizes aviation safety and security. The pay stoppage is associated with the ongoing US Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

The VAI Southeast Asia Aviation Safety Conference, which takes place May 27–29 in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia, will feature sessions focused on operational challenges, including an open discussion with VAI President and CEO François Lassale about regional hazards, real safety risks, and what actually works.

The OEM has completed a firefighting exercise in a French forest that linked helicopters, drones, fixed-wing aircraft, and ground personnel using interconnected communication and data-processing systems.

(KTUL) – The suspect allegedly pointed a loaded handgun at a Tulsa Police Department helicopter Mar. 20 after a large fight at a park in the city.

(BBC) – An HM Coastguard helicopter crew airlifted two people from a listing sailboat Mar. 24 near the entrance to the River Roach in Essex, England.

(Syracuse.com) – The FAA has selected Syracuse Hancock International Airport (KSYR) in New York as a test site for a pilot program that will evaluate how to integrate electric aircraft into the US National Airspace System.

Organizations that get safety culture right don’t achieve it by accident, notes the Air Charter Safety Foundation’s (ACSF) Safety Spotlight.

The Business Intelligence Group has named Veryon a recipient of its 2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Award. The company is also a platinum winner of the 2026 Pinnacle Awards for AI.