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(Aviation Week) – According to Michael Graham, a member of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), respecting the unexpected requires proactive safety management and a positive safety culture, both of which can take years to develop. Respecting the expected requires common sense and should result in immediate action. As the NTSB conducted its investigation into the January 2025 midair collision between a military helicopter and a regional passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA), he argues that one thing became clear—the expected was not respected.

This FAA emergency airworthiness directive (AD) requires revising the limitations section of the existing rotorcraft flight manual to prohibit the use of the ballast weights within the aft-movable ballast-box assembly.

The FAA’s monthly Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) virtual forum takes place Thursday, Mar. 26. All NOTAM users are welcome to attend.

Registrations for this year’s Mil2Civ Workshop and Industry Career Fair are more than double compared with recent years. Both events to fill the vertical aviation industry’s workforce pipeline will take place at VERTICON 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia, this week.

This essay by Matt Zuccaro, then–president and CEO of Helicopter Association International, originally appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of ROTOR magazine. In conjunction with the “It’s OK to Stay” safety initiative, VAI is sharing Zuccaro’s evergreen message that safety in the vertical aviation industry is incompatible with accepting every flight.

The Hood River, Oregon–based developer of autonomous airborne imagery intelligence systems for civil, commercial, defense, and intelligence missions celebrated its 10th anniversary last month.

The Airborne Public Safety Association will present APSCON 2026 and APSCON Unmanned 2026 concurrently in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jul. 13–17. The shows focus on manned and unmanned public safety aviation education and networking.