Strengthening Aeronautical Decision Making For The Pilots in 2021.

U.S. Helicopter Safety Team And Precision Flight Controls to team up for strengthening Aeronautical decision making for the pilots

For helicopter pilots, the depth of their decision-making abilities can mean the difference between a secure arrival and a casualty. As pilots accumulate different types of flight experiences, they will make better decisions before their flight occurs and while they’re flying the aircraft.

Scenario-Based Training

The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team is supporting this idea because 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, AZ, and Helicopter Institute in Ft. Worth with HELIMOD MARK III helicopter simulators that include computer game head-mounted displays.

The simulators are going to be using scenario-based training in order that helicopter pilots can rehearse aeronautical decision-making associated with loss of control-inflight, unintended flight in instrument environmental condition and low altitude operations. Embry-Riddle and Helicopter Institute will develop the training scenarios for the computer game simulators. they’re taken from detailed scenarios created by the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team in its Recommended Practice – Simulation Training for Aviation deciding . The training scenarios are scheduled to be running for pilots to use this summer.

UIMC and 56 Seconds to measure

A portion of the training deals with unexpected weather and visibility issues and throughout this year, the USHST is placing a robust emphasis on the fatal topic of Unintentional Instrument environmental condition involving helicopter operations.

U.S. Accident statistics reveal that a helicopter pilot operating under Visual Flight Rules who unintentionally continues flight into IMC will very likely lose control of their aircraft and be dead within a median time of 56 seconds. to assist reverse this alarming and unacceptable trend, the USHST has created a video, “56 Seconds to measure ,” aimed toward saving lives and ensuring that those 56 seconds never occur.

The USHST conducted research using NTSB data on 31 unintentional IMC accidents during which telemetry data was available. Analysis of those events determined that the median estimated time from UIMC entry to the fatal crash was 56 seconds. The “56 Seconds to Live” video offers a graphic depiction of how those 56 seconds feel to a desperate helicopter pilot.

The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team may be a government/industry cooperative group of volunteers formed to enhance the security of civil helicopter operations within the National Airspace System. The USHST may be a partner of the Vertical Aviation Safety Team, which focuses on worldwide helicopter safety.