USHST and Precision Flight Controls collaborate to enhance aeronautical decision-making for pilots The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team Press Release | May 3, 2021
Estimated reading time 4 minutes, 50 seconds.
For helicopter pilots, the depth of their decision-making abilities can mean the difference between a safe arrival and a fatal accident. As pilots accumulate different types of flight experiences, they can make better decisions before their flight occurs and while they are flying the aircraft.
Precision Flight Controls and Ryan Aerospace have supplied the Embry-Riddle campus in Prescott, Arizona, and Helicopter Institute in Ft. Worth, Texas, with HELIMOD MARK III helicopter simulators that include virtual reality head-mounted displays.
4-May-2021 Source: USHST
For helicopter pilots, the depth of their decision-making abilities can mean the difference between a safe arrival and a fatal accident. As pilots accumulate different types of flight experiences, they can make better decisions before their flight occurs and while they are flying the aircraft.
Scenario-Based Training
The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (www.USHST.org) is supporting this concept as it teams up with Precision Flight Controls, Ryan Aerospace, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Helicopter Institute. Precision Flight Controls and Ryan Aerospace have supplied the Embry-Riddle campus in Prescott, Ariz., and Helicopter Institute in Ft. Worth with HELIMOD MARK III helicopter simulators that include virtual reality head-mounted displays.
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Claude Vuichard & Tim Tucker tell the story behind the Vuichard Technique
Rethinking a maneuver in response to an emergency is one thing. Convincing the piloting world that they need to change a long-held practice is quite another. But Claude Vuichard did just that in developing a new escape from the vortex ring state. By Claude Vuichard and Tim Tucker | April 29, 2021
Estimated reading time 16 minutes, 11 seconds.
Rethinking a maneuver in response to an emergency is one thing. Convincing the piloting world that they need to change a long-held practice is quite another. But Claude Vuichard did just that in developing a new escape from the vortex ring state. Here, Vuichard and former Robinson chief flight instructor Tim Tucker tell us how they brought the Vuichard Recovery technique to the world.
Luminar’s LIDAR will take flight in new partnership with Airbus
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Luminar, the newly public LIDAR company, is teaming up with the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world to bring its laser-guided mapping and perception technology to new heights.
LIDAR, the laser sensor that sends millions of laser points out per second and measures how long they take to bounce back, is seen as a key ingredient to autonomous driving. But it hasn’t seen as much traction in the world of aviation. Luminar and its new partner, the French aerospace giant Airbus, are out to fix that by applying the laser sensor’s 3D mapping capabilities to the aerospace company’s helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft in the hopes of making flying a lot safer.
21-Apr-2021 Source: USHST
As a result of its comprehensive analysis of fatal helicopter accidents, the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (www.USHST.org) determined that loss of control while inflight has been a leading factor in accident causes, especially involving light helicopters. Current light helicopters have flight characteristics that are challenging and demanding of pilot workload. In response, the USHST is moving forward with some first steps to increase safety by encouraging the development and installation of stability augmentation systems and autopilot devices that increase the flight stability of light helicopters.
“If light helicopters operating under visual flight rules could be enhanced to meet some of the instrument flight rule stability requirements, many loss-of-control accidents could be avoided,” explains Nick Mayhew, industry co-chair of the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team. “Aircraft stability would help a pilot maintain positive aircraft control during temporary