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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.

(Vertical magazine) – The company is partnering with MD Helicopters on a program to update MD 500E avionics from analog systems to a digital glass cockpit.

(Vertical magazine) – Swedish Armed Forces NH90 helicopter crews train in Norrbotten County’s Abisko National Park each year to prepare for mountain operations and extreme conditions.

(Militär Aktuell) – The Lockheed Martin company is preparing for series production of the S-92A+ at plants in Stratford, Connecticut, and Owego, New York.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has determined that the helicopter’s engine suffered a mechanical failure due to in-service loosening of the nuts on the connecting-rod bolts, which led to separation of one of the connecting rods from the crankshaft.

(UAS magazine) – Skyports Drone Services and German construction company Hochtief plan to use beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone surveys for a bridge project on the River Rhein north of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia.