Story ID: 408
USHST Offering Sage Safety Advice During Heli-Expo
By: Curt Epstein
Caption: The organization, founded in 2013 to reduce the incidence of rotorcraft accidents, has a full schedule of safety programming at Heli-Expo 2018
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The United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) will be providing a full slate of safety workshops this week at Heli-Expo 2018. Among the 13 session topics scheduled (some multiple) for Tuesday and Wednesday are flight risk assessments; autorotations; safety management systems for small fleet or private operators; human factors; flying blind; vortex ring recovery; airworthiness; flight instructor intervention and risk prevention; intermittent instrument meteorological conditions threat; avoidance and survival; and heliport accident prevention. Founded in 2013 to promote rotorcraft safety, USHST works to reduce accidents through an industry and governmental partnership. Since that time the frequency of helicopter accidents and fatalities have decreased.