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In a new episode of the FAA’s Rotorcraft Collective, Chris Baur, US Helicopter Safety Team cochair and VAI Board member, discusses how to safely use a smartwatch in the cockpit.

The academy in Fort Worth, Texas, recently hosted a reunion of veterans who served in the US Army’s 192nd Attack Helicopter Company during the Vietnam War.

Airbus has published a feature detailing how an SAS Pôle Air H125 is assisting Le Commandant Charcot, an icebreaker ship, with scientific missions to the North Pole and Antarctica.

This FAA airworthiness directive (AD), which takes effect Aug. 5, requires initial and repetitive non-extinguishing tests for engine flameout and replacement of the preference injector, if necessary, as well as a software upgrade of the electronic engine control unit.

The FAA is seeking comments by Aug. 18 on this proposed airworthiness directive (AD), which would require replacement of the jettisonable windows and seals on the sliding doors and fixed panels on the left-hand and right-hand sides. It would also require the installation of new labels.

Chris Hill, VAI senior director of safety, explores what safety means in the context of other core priorities, including operational excellence and sustaining a profitable business, in the latest newsletter from the United States Helicopter Safety Team.

Under the agreement, operators of Milestone Aviation Group’s more than 100 Leonardo helicopters will receive power-by-the-hour (PBH) support from the OEM.

The Monaco-based company has appointed Gwenola Robert as VP contracts. She was previously VP of contracts and administration for ATR.