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VAI members who participate in USAIG’s Performance Vector program could receive up to $2,500 per policy year to cover all or part of the cost of participating in VAI’s Operational Risk and Resilience Accreditation program.

(Bowen Island Undercurrent) – A North Shore Rescue helicopter crew from Vancouver, British Columbia, airlifted two hikers who became lost at night Aug. 13 along a trail north of Grouse Mountain.

New South Wales, Australia–based CareFlight has completed more than 1,500 missions across the Northern Territory since launching Leonardo AW139 operations in 2014.

VAI has partnered with four safety management system (SMS) industry leaders to provide substantial savings for operators that don’t already have an SMS in place.

AOA Aviation and Leadership Consulting’s Skip Johnson explains how to use the DiSC (dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness) model to learn more about yourself and reduce the probability of errors in the US Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) summer newsletter.

(Independent) – The online retailer is one of six organizations the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA) has approved to conduct beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight trials using drones to deliver small packages.

(WRAL) – A US National Guard Boeing AH-64 Apache crew made an emergency landing Aug. 14 at Raleigh–Durham International Airport (KRDU) in North Carolina after reporting smoke inside the cabin.

Unither Bioelectronics is teaming up with Robinson to accelerate the development of hydrogen-powered variants of the R44 and R66, including for air medical operations and organ transportation.

Boost Systems has obtained FAA certification to install its human external cargo (HEC) system on the Bell UH-1H.

Garmin has obtained FAA certification for its Runway Occupancy Awareness system, which uses automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast data to alert the crew about potential runway incursions with nearby aircraft and ground vehicles.