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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Community Network is sharing information about a December 2016 helicopter crash in Brazil that illustrates a clear case of mission pressure leading a VFR helicopter pilot to fly into a degraded visual environment.

A new Skyportz animation shows how vertipads can reduce downwash and outwash from electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft at urban vertiports.

(WXMI) – A Michigan State Police helicopter crew located a hiker Sep. 6 who was lost in Pigeon River Country State Forest while participating in a YouTube survival challenge.

The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft maker and the East Japan Railway Co. displayed future combined rail and eVTOL travel routes from Takanawa Gateway City Aug. 29–31 in Minato, Tokyo.

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR, completed ground training and flew the Jetson One electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft Sep. 5 in Carlsbad, California.

During our most recent VAI Webinar, AME and Wingman Med Operations Director Keith Roxo, MD, explained how an AME determines your fitness for flight. If you missed the webinar, follow the link in the story to watch a recording of it.

The companies will partner to develop a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for advanced air mobility (AAM) applications. The agreement includes GE Aerospace investing $300 million in BETA.

The new Airbus helicopter, a replacement for the operator’s EC135 at Aberdeen International Airport (EGPD), will enter service in October.

(The Connexion) – A mountain rescue crew completed a complex winch of a climber who fell and was suspended upside down from ropes Sep. 2 in the French Alps.