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The VAI and WYVERN program gives our members their most-requested benefit—help with their safety management system (SMS). With WYVERN’s easy-start process, participants can check for potentially costly threats in minutes, not months, and resolve them on their own schedule with help from an SMS coach.

(Fox News) – Zeb Hadley, a helicopter pilot and CEO of Raleigh, North Carolina–based National Coatings, worked with emergency responders to save a baby with his private helicopter just before Hurricane Helene rains flooded the Appalachian region in late September.

Global logistics provider Toll Group has reached an agreement to acquire Pel-Air, including its fleet of 10 fixed-wing aircraft, to supplement its helicopter air medical service in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.

A panel of advanced air mobility (AAM) and fixed-base operator (FBO) experts on Oct. 22 discussed how to bring AAM aircraft to market. The event took place at the National Business Aviation Association 2024 Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

(Vertical magazine) – Three Gulf of Mexico hurricanes in quick succession have again illustrated the difficulties facing offshore helicopter operators.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a preliminary report into an Air Evac Life Team helicopter accident that resulted in the deaths of three people. Witnesses described seeing the helicopter strike a wire on a television signal-transmission tower right before it crashed.

(KOLO) – A pilot who was fishing sustained minor injuries when his private helicopter fell over into the East Fork Carson River Oct. 22 after the riverbank gave way during takeoff.

The new panel from Canadian avionics maker Anodyne Electronics Manufacturing (AEM) can control up to eight audio-system transceivers and works with the P139-HD digital audio system.

The FAA is seeking comments by Dec. 8, 2024, on this proposed airworthiness directive (PAD), which would require revising existing maintenance records to incorporate new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which requires replacing certain governor controllers and prohibits installing those governor controllers on any helicopter, becomes effective Nov. 29, 2024.