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The symposium, which will include presentations, practical demos, and exhibition space for helicopter hoist operations (HHO), takes place Jun. 10–11 at Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (EDSB) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The companies are building a counter–unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that will feature Honeywell Aerospace’s Stationary and Mobile UAS Reveal and Intercept autonomous airborne platform on the long-range Odys Laila unmanned aerial vehicle.

The company has announced a series of promotions that took effect today, Apr. 1, including Brett Bernard as senior VP and Mitzi Rasmussen as senior VP and regional manager of general aviation at the USAIG office in Chicago, Illinois.

The FAA is accepting comments through May 18 on this airworthiness directive (AD), which requires revising the limitations section of the existing rotorcraft flight manual to prohibit the use of ballast weights within the aft movable ballast-box assembly.

Aerodyne Electronics Manufacturing (AEM) has added the Bell 206 and 407 to its existing supplemental type certificate for installation of its MTP136D P25 forest service and MTP138 VHF FM radios.

The VAI Southeast Asia Aviation Safety Conference, which takes place May 27–29 in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia, will feature a session with David Boyle from Willis. Boyle will explain how operators can identify risk and insure against it as part of their risk-mitigation strategy.

The international aviation and space fair in Santiago, Chile, which takes place Apr. 7–12, 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.

(FlightGlobal) – The success or otherwise of a CEO can be measured in many ways, including financial performance, market share, product launches, and industrial expansion. If those were the sole criteria at play, then Bruno Even’s eight-year stint as the head of Airbus Helicopters, which ends tomorrow, Apr. 1, was a resounding success.

(KSL) – The Utah Department of Transportation is working with Drone Amplified to explore the use of drones to drop explosives as part of avalanche-control operations. The technology is already in use for starting and managing controlled burns in firefighting operations.

(RNZ) – A Precision Helicopters search-and-rescue team rescued an injured border collie Mar. 31 that fell down a waterfall and was missing for a week in the Arahura Valley on the South Island.