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    USHST Safety Experts Will Offer 17 Workshops at Heli-Expo 2017

    Jan. 30, 2017
    The USHST promotes safety and works to reduce accidents through a government and industry cooperative effort that has resulted in a 27 percent decrease in U.S. civil helicopter accidents since the organization’s inception in 2013.
    Related To: United States Helicopter Safety Team

    Members of the United States Helicopter Safety Team (www.USHST.org) will be providing their safety advice for Heli-Expo participants in Dallas at 17 different workshops - - the highest number of presentations its members have ever provided at Heli-Expo. 

    The USHST promotes safety and works to reduce accidents through a government and industry cooperative effort that has resulted in a 27 percent decrease in U.S. civil helicopter accidents since the organization’s inception in 2013.  During that same time period, fatal accidents have decreased 43 percent.

    The full list of USHST-related workshops scheduled at Heli-Expo 2017 is the following:

    • Top 10 Undesirable Attitudes – March 7, 8:30 am, and March 8, 8:00 am
    • FRAT: Practical Flight Risk Assessments, March 7, 8:30 am, and March 8, 3:30 pm
    • The Safety Alphabet: FAA Voluntary Safety Programs Explained, March 7, 8:30 am
    • Autorotations: Reality Exposed – March 7, 1:00 pm
    • Human Factors: Protecting Us from Ourselves, March 7, 1:00 pm, and March 8, 3:30 pm
    • IIMC: Lethal Threat, Practical Solutions, March 7. 1:00 pm, and March 8, 9:15 am
    • Personal Protection Equipment - Part 1, March 7, 1:00 pm
    • The Vuichard Recovery: A Better Way Out of Vortex Ring State, March 7, 1:00 pm, and March 8, 10:30 am
    • Applied Aeronautical Knowledge – March 7, 2:15 pm, and March 8, 8:00 am
    • Flight Instructor Intervention and Risk Prevention, March 7, 2:15 pm, and March 8, 1:00 pm
    • The Fright of Night Flight, March 7, 3:30 pm, and March 8, 1:00 pm
    • Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring 101: “Unplugged”, March 7, 3:30 pm, and March 8, 11:45 am
    • SMS for Small-Fleet or Private Operators, March 8, 11:45 am
    • Helicopter Advanced Vision Systems, March 8, 11:45 am
    • The Superhero Helicopter Pilot: Training for the Industry’s Future, March 8, 1:00 pm
    • HFDM Research and Rotorcraft ASIAS, March 8, 1:00 pm
    • Personal Protection Equipment – Part 2, March 8, 2:15 pm

    More information about the USHST, its reports, safety tools, Real Safety presentations and YouTube safety videos can be obtained at its web site and on the International Helicopter Safety Team web site (www.IHST.org) and Facebook page.