USHST Safety Experts Will Offer 13 Workshops at Heli-Expo 2018.

HELICOPTER SAFETY NEWS

Jan. 4, 2018

Members of the United States Helicopter Safety Team (www.USHST.org) will be providing their safety advice for Heli-Expo participants in Las Vegas at 13 different workshops in a wide variety of topics.

The USHST promotes safety and works to reduce accidents through a government and industry cooperative effort that has resulted in a decrease in U.S. civil helicopter accidents since the organization’s inception in 2013.  During that same time period, fatal accidents also have decreased.

The full list of USHST-related workshops scheduled at Heli-Expo 2018 is the following:

• FRAT: Practical Flight Risk Assessments                    Feb. 27, 8:30 am, and Feb. 28, 2:15 pm
• Autorotations: Reality Exposed                                 Feb. 27, 1:00 pm
• SMS for Small-Fleet or Private Operators                  Feb. 27, 2:15 pm
• Applied Aeronautical Knowledge                              Feb. 27, 2:15 pm, and Feb. 28, 8:00 am
• Tipped Off: Improving Performance Through

Safety Tips                                                             Feb. 27, 2:15 pm, and Feb. 28, 11:45 am

• Human Factors: Protecting Us from Ourselves                      Feb. 27, 2:15 pm, and Feb. 28, 2:15 pm
• Flying Blind                                                              Feb. 27, 3:30 pm
• The Vuichard Recovery: A Better Way Out of

Vortex Ring State                                                   Feb. 27, 3:30 pm, and Feb. 28, 10:30 am

• IIMC: Threat, Avoidance and Survival                                 Feb. 28, 8:00 am
• Airworthiness Defined: Safety Management in

Small Operations                                                   Feb. 28, 10:30 am

• Flight Instructor Intervention and Risk Prevention    Feb. 28, 1:00 pm
• Heliport Accident Prevention                                    Feb. 28, 1:00 pm
• What’s Your Attitude?                                                          Feb. 28, 1:00 pm

 

 

More information about the USHST, its reports, safety tools, Real Safety presentations and YouTube safety videos can be obtained at its web site and on the International Helicopter Safety Team web site (www.IHST.org) and Facebook page.

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