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HE1 Training Leaflet – Safety considerations (German version)
Category German, Leaflets and Toolkits
HE1 Training Leaflet – Safety considerations (Russian version)
Jan 2012 - An updated version of the EHSIT Training Leaflet HE 1 was translated into Russian by Eurocopter.
Category Leaflets and Toolkits
HE3 Helicopter Off Airfield Landing Site Operations published on Jan 2012
Jan 2012 - The helicopters ability to approach, manoeuvre, land and take-off from an off airfield Landing Site or unprepared Landing Site is one of the most important aspects of helicopters operations.
The various landing sites such as hotels, golf courses, sporting venues, etc can vary in their dimensions, approaches, hazards, elevation, and location, the same basic principles should be employed.
Landing sites that are remote from an airfield offer various challenges to the pilot and consequently have resulted in a significant number of accidents. Unlike at an airfield there is generally, little or no assistance in the assessment of wind, guidance on appropriate approach directions or information on other traffic. Hazards not normally experienced at an airfield such as wires, obstructions, uneven landing ground, trees, Foreign Object Damage, livestock and pedestrians are quite likely to be found and require a heightened degree of situational awareness by the pilot who needs to expect the unexpected!
The brochure HE3 was developped by the EHEST Team and covers the:
- Planning and Preparation
- Landing Site Identification
- Landing Site Recce
- Types of Approach
- Manoeuvring in the LS
- Departure
- Pilot Errors
Category Featured News, Leaflets and Toolkits
HE2 Helicopter Airmanship leaflet published on Dec 2011
Airmanship is defined by EASA Part FCL as: “The consistent use of good judgement and well-developed knowledge, skills and attitudes to accomplish flight objectives.”. The EHEST review of helicopter accidents 2000 to 2005 revealed 140 general aviation helicopter accidents in Europe identifying the following (causal and contributing) factors:
- Pilot decision making and risk assessment
- Mission Planning
- Pilot misjudged own limitations/capabilities, overconfidence
- Pilot inexperienced
- Inadequate consideration of weather/wind
- Failed to follow procedures
- Pilot control/ handling deficiencies
- Failed to recognise cues to terminate current course of action or manoeuvre
- Inadvertent entry into IMC, vision restricted by meteorological conditions
- Wilful disregard for rules and SOPs
The majority of these factors are related to airmanship.
Comprehensive knowledge, careful pre-flight preparations, frequent flying practice and avoidance of complacency are the best insurance against becoming an accident statistic.
Category Featured News, General, Leaflets and Toolkits
Helicopter ground operations signals published on Dec 2011
the Team published a simple Helicopter ground operations signals leaflet that can be viewed and downloaded below.
HE2_Helicopter_Ground_Operations_Signals_v1
Category Featured News, General, Leaflets and Toolkits
HE1 Training Leaflet – Safety considerations (Italian version)
EHEST_training Leaflet – Safety considerations_IT
Adattamento alla lingua Italiana: Alberto Anglade / Mario Lorenzini / Cristian Durante.
Category Leaflets and Toolkits
Video – Degraded Visual Environment and Loss of control
The EHSAT analysis shows that spatial disorientation is one major cause of accidents. This video was developed for EHEST by the French ‘Institut pour l’Amélioration de la Sécurité Aérienne’.
Degraded Visual Environment & Loss of Control from IASA Institut.
Download: M4V version | WMV version | WMV ZIP version
Category Featured News, Loss of control, Videos
Pre-flight planning Checklist
The EHSIT Training team propose an example of pre-flight planning checklist. Note that this is an example that needs to be adapted to your operation.
Category Leaflets and Toolkits
Training Leaflet – Safety considerations
This leaflet is the first in a series of safety related leaflets and publications aiming at improving safety by sharing good practises. These leaflets will be accompanied by web based training materials including videos, which will be available freely to all pilots in order to enhance flight safety by addressing recognised training related issues.
Data from the EHSAT review confirm that a continuing significant number of helicopter accidents is due to pilot disorientation in the Degraded Visual Environment, Vortex Ring State, Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness and Static & Dynamic Rollover. Therefore, the aim of this leaflet is to improve the safety of helicopter operations by providing pilots with the relevant information for each of these topics in order to allow a basic understanding of the causes, the prevention and the recovery actions thereby enabling pilots to make better, more informed decisions.
This Leafleat covers the following subjects:
- Degraded Visual Environment (DVE)
- Vortex Ring State
- Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness (LTE)
- Static & Dynamic Rollover
- Pre-flight planning Checklist
Category Featured News, General, Leaflets and Toolkits