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Webinars

Oct. 10, 2024

VAI Webinars: Integrating UAS Aircraft into a Helicopter Operation

As technology advances and new regulations clear a path, unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) are joining helicopters in a variety of operations. One area where mixed helicopter and UAS fleets are proving their compatibility is public utilities. At our Oct. 10, 2024, webinar, two managers from Pacific Gas and Electric Southern California Edison shared how their utilities are integrating UASs into their inspection programs.

VAI Daily

Oct. 10, 2024

VAI Members-Only Benefit: VAI Online Academy

Our robust e-learning management system offers livestreamed content and enhanced online training courses for pilots, managers, operators, and maintenance and safety professionals to learn at their own pace.

VAI Daily

Oct. 10, 2024

EUROPEAN ROTORS goes to Amsterdam

(POWER UP magazine) – The annual vertical aviation show and safety conference takes place Nov. 4–7, 2024, in the capital of the Netherlands.

VAI Daily

Oct. 10, 2024

Navigating the most restricted airspace in the world

(POWER UP magazine) – VAI President and CEO James Viola shares the thrill of leading the rotorcraft contingent in a special flyover he “will never forget.”

Videos

Oct. 9, 2024

VAI Advances Your Career

VAI Daily

Oct. 9, 2024

Perspectives: Is the DPE program sustainable?

Ben Sclair, publisher of General Aviation News, explains that according to a letter from six lawmakers to FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker, the Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) program relies on a group of DPEs the FAA has no real control over, an arrangement that Sclair argues seems unsustainable.

VAI Daily

Oct. 9, 2024

FDH Aero receives aviation workplace award

(GlobeNewswire) – Supply chain provider FDH Aero is on this year’s “Best Place to Work in Aviation” list from Aviation Business Network and Workforce Research Group.

VAI Daily

Oct. 9, 2024

VAI Webinar, Oct. 10: Integrating UAS Aircraft into a Helicopter Operation

Drones are working with helicopters on utility inspections. Can they assist your operations too? Find out at tomorrow’s VAI webinar. See the link inside to register now!

VAI Daily

Oct. 9, 2024

Helicopter crew winches sick passenger from cruise ship (VIDEO)

(NZ Herald) – A French military helicopter crew airlifted a P&O cruise-ship passenger experiencing a medical emergency Oct. 8 near Mare Island, New Caledonia.

VAI Daily

Oct. 9, 2024

NCNG grounds Black Hawk crew after rotor-wash incident (VIDEO)

(WNCN) – The North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) is working to determine the impacts of an inadvertent rotor-wash incident on Oct. 6 involving a now-grounded Black Hawk crew that flew too close to a distribution site for Hurricane Helene aid in Burnsville.