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(Military Embedded Systems) – Schiebel has received a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) design verification report (DVR) for its Camcopter S-100 vertical takeoff and landing rotary-wing unmanned aircraft system.

(The Scotsman) – At Corrour Bothy, a shelter in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, cleaning the toilets poses a logistical challenge that only a helicopter can meet. Officials that run the shelter called in a helicopter crew Sep. 5 to remove a dozen bags of human feces.

(National Defense) – The US Army is pointing to rushed training and pilot errors as the main reasons for a recent string of helicopter accidents. The past year has seen 14 major accidents resulting in 11 fatalities, with a mishap rate nearly double the yearly average for the past 10 years.

(AIN) – The Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched an investigation into how a Mil Mi-17 helicopter crew dropped a Leonardo AW119 on Sep. 7 during a shuttle operation after the AW119 broke down in the Uttarakhand mountains.

(9News.com/au) – A helicopter crew airlifted six people, including a 2-month-old baby, from a tractor that got stuck in a flooded river Sep. 7 near Ikamatua, South Island.

The FAA has issued a correction to its April 2024 final rule that incorporates certain airman certification standards (ACSs) and practical test standards into the certification requirements for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, aircraft dispatchers, and parachute riggers. The final rule incorrectly included duplicative requirements in certain areas.

(Bonner County Daily Bee) – The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office dispatched a helicopter crew Sep. 3 to help locate a hiker and a dog that had not returned from a walk near the Fourth of July mountain pass in northern Idaho.

Graeme Gale, Helicopters Otago CEO and chief pilot, is warning the public that a laser strike could temporarily or permanently blind a rescue pilot and lead to catastrophic consequences following a recent spate of incidents around Kakanui, South Island, New Zealand.

The National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) sent out a Fly Safe Campaign newsletter Sep. 9 that is “almost identical” to the one the organization published two weeks ago to highlight the fact that, in the interim, another fatal agricultural aviation accident has occurred. At this point, NAAA says, almost one-third of agricultural accidents this year have been fatal. The association reminds pilots to be vigilant and avoid complacency.