Airbus Helicopters (Booth 7648) announced that Bruce Webb will take over the role as director of aviation education and community outreach. Webb joined the company in 1999 and served as chief pilot since 2000.
As part of the newly created role, Webb will work with industry to improve helicopter safety and strengthen the company’s involvement with aviation organizations. He will speak at industry meetings and conferences on safety topics. In one of his presentations, "Hope is Not a Strategy," Webb addresses how pilots and crews need to anticipate dangerous situations while also understanding how their reactions can ultimately enhance the danger, he explained. "We need to take into account the human brain,” he said. “We need to stop trying to amend human behavior but instead understand how the brain works so that we can accommodate it.”
He gave the first of two safety presentations, "Flying Blind," yesterday at Heli-Expo 2017. The second, “Unintended Consequences,” will be presented March 8 at 11:45 a.m. in Room C140.
"My goal is to improve the safety of our industry by developing education programs and promoting a better understanding of human beings,” Webb said. “This industry spends a lot of time making our aircraft safer; I’m promoting spending more time making the human interface safer. That is what I want to accomplish.”