** LINK to a PDF of the Final Agenda found below** During the 2012 HeliExpo the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) will provide an informative workshop to summarize the IHST’s analysis of U.S. accidents and present the top twenty recommended intervention strategies to reduce the helicopter accident rate. Topics will encompass training, flight data monitoring, maintenance, safety management systems [...]
Implementing Safety Managment Systems in Aviation
Larry McCarroll, CAPACG, LLC CEO and Co-Founder, provides important SMS insight in Chapter 7 of this recently published book, “Implementing Safety Management Systems in Aviation” . This book is written for Safety Professionals and Students alike and is now available from Ashgate Publishing. Excerpt From Chapter 7: “A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing; Drink [...]
IHST – Developing your SMS
This informative video gives a nice overview of Safety Management Systems. IHST -Developing a Safety Management System Video
FAA Issues STC to GA-FDM Teaming Partner, Alaka’i Technologies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FAA Certifies Alakai Technologies’ Flight Data Monitoring System on AS350 Helicopters Smart system records, analyzes, and automatically reports FDM results for operators Hopkinton, MA, February 2, 2011 – Alakai Technologies announced today that the Federal Aviation Administration issued a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for installation of Alakai’s digital Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) [...]
IS-BAO for Helicopters – Expected Spring of 2011 and other ISBAO/SMS news
IS-BAO Auditor Newsletter (Excerpts) November 2010 IS-BAO for Helicopters The helicopter community has expressed a desire to use the IS-BAO as the safety standard for that sector and to that end an Agreement has been signed between IBAC and three of the largest helicopter association (HAI, BHA, EHA) to develop a Helicopter Edition (HE) of IS-BAO. The proposal is [...]



