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Fall 2024 Newsletter, USHST Foundation & Peer Pilot Mental Health Program
Welcome to the Fall 2024 US Helicopter Safety Team e-newsletter! We sincerely appreciate your time and participation with the US Helicopter Safety Team. If you are first joining us, the USHST is publishing a quarterly eNewsletter, featuring safety tips, statistical data and shared experiences in our community. If you would like to share your experiences…
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Harnessing the Power to Change Our Destiny?
A Novel Investigative Approach Helps Operators Chart a Path to a Brighter Future Introduction In an industry where safety is paramount, helicopter operators constantly seek ways to protect their teams, passengers, and operations. Traditionally, this focus has involved post-mortem investigations, where a tragic accident prompts rigorous examination to identify failures. But what if helicopter operators…
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ACS….Part Deux
Yes, I’m dropping a little French on you! If you aren’t familiar, don’t fret; it simply means “part two.” And for the first time since I took over this column nearly two years ago, I am writing a second part to my last column. I feel that it is that important! The new Airman Certification…
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Mentoring
When it comes to mentoring and the incredible impact it has on safety in our industry, I feel fortunate to have benefitted, early on in my career, from a structure that heavily relied on a mentoring system, albeit in an informal way. I graduated from US Army flight training in 1971 with a whopping 210…
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Rotorcraft Accident Dashboard
FY25: October
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Operational Pressure meets Emotional Intelligence
Pressure can show up in unexpected forms, and sometimes operate in the background- influencing ways of being you might not otherwise recognize. Sometimes a little extra attentiveness can help your overall process in detecting and mitigating risk. I’m thinking back to a day this summer in a longline utility operation where I made several silly…
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USHST Safety Report
by Clarke Pleasants
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The Commercial Ticket Myth
A helicopter pilot offered sightseeing Christmas tours unaware that he was breaking regulations. Soon after Ryan Swiatek received his commercial pilot certificate, the pilot and businessman had what he thought was a great idea — advertising $100 rides on social media for the public to see the panorama of Christmas lights around Wichita Falls, Texas.…
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