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VOL. 44 | NO. 7

July 2010

Personal|Corporate

Commercial

Military

Public Service

Training

Products

Services

Departments

12 Rotorcraft Report

People

Coming Events

Hot Products

Classified Ads

Above: Plaquemines Parish Sheriff

Enstrom 480B. Below: U.S. Marine

Corps Yankee Huey, with four-bladed

external gun and nose FLIR turret, in

Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

Ad Index

Columns

Features

4 Editor’s Notebook

8 Feedback

10 Meet the Contributors

60 Law Enforcement Notebook

62 Military Insider

COVER STORY

■ Budgets Vs. Bad Guys

Police departments are feeling the pinch of the recession. See how

some are dealing with cuts and thinking outside the box.

By Charlotte Adams

■ COTS: A Success Story

Col. Neil Thurgood shares insights on how the commercial-off-the-

shelf acquisition process has worked for the light utility helicopter.

By Col. Neil Thurgood and John Burke

Cover photo courtesy of Enstrom Helicopter Corp.

■ Military Centers of Excellence

The Army and the Navy were tasked to develop centers of

excellence for rotory-wing development and acquisition.

By Douglas Nelms

■ Yankees in Helmand

Our military editor embedded with the U. S. Marine Corps in

Afghanistan to learn firsthand how helicopters are performing. You

won’t find war coverage like this anywhere else. By Andrew Drwiega

■ Survivability Report

Is helicopter survivability improving? By Steve Colby

■ ALEA Preview

What to expect at the Airborne Law Enforcement Association’s

annual gathering. By Ernie Stephens, Editor-at-Large

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

By Joy Finnegan

Safety & Training

jfinnegan@accessintel.com

n June 8 and 9 we held our

second Rotor & Wing Safety &

Training Summit in Denver,

Colo. I want to take a moment

to say thank you to all of our speakers,

moderators, panelists, sponsors and

attendees. Sponsors included Euro-

copter, CAE, Televent, Aero Dynamix,

Winslow LifeRaft, AeroSimulators,

ITT, HotSeat Chassis, Sikorsky and

Frasca. The event want very well and

we look forward to doing it again next

year and making it even better.

One of our goals was to have a

combination of industry leaders and

topic-related experts on each panel.

In this way, we were able to hear from

the theoretical side of these topics and

to hear about the actual use of them in

practice by those operating helicop-

ters everyday.

For example, we had NASA expert

Immanuel Barshi talk about the lat-

est in human-machine interface in

regards to human factors in the cockpit

of helicopters. On the same panel we

had Tim Rolfe, chief training captain

S-92 Bristow Eurpoean operations,

talk about how he integrates an under-

standing of human factors into the

training of S-92 pilots at Bristow.

Sharon Desfor of HeliValue$ gave

information and guidance about new

aircraft purchases and what to consid-

er for future resale value. And Rotor &

Wing columnist Lee Benson, who has

overseen many new aircraft purchases

while chief pilot at the LA County Fire

Department, give his firsthand account

of how to get the best platform for the

job required and pitfalls to avoid.

Columnist Ste ve “Elroy ” Colby

moderated our panel on technology

in the cockpit. Speakers included BJ

Raysor of Arkansas Children’s Hos-

pital, Dennis Small from EraMED in

Maine and Matt Murphy from the

Texas Department of Public Safety.

This panel prov ide d infor mation

about cutting-e dge programs and

equipment they are utilizing today to

improve safety.

There were many value added pro-

grams as well. Chris Baur and Grady

Boyce of Hughes Aerospace, with

FAA’s Tom Salat, gave a workshop on

performance-based navigation (PBN)

and what is in store for the future of

WAAS, ADS-B and other advance-

ments in navigation. How will helicop-

ter operators benefit from these devel-

opments? Their explanations, under-

standing of the future and answers to

that question were amazing.

The International Helicopter Safety

Team (IHST) briefed attendees on the

efforts the group is making to reduce

the helicopter accident rate by 80 per-

cent by 2016. Sue Gardner of the FAA

and IHST program director and Fred

Brisbois of Sikorsky spoke about those

efforts and encouraged the attendees’

participation on the team. Other IHST

members in attendance included Terry

Palmer of FlightSafety Intl, who heads

the training committee, and BJ Raysor.

Last but certainly not least, FAA

Administrator Randy Babbitt took

time out of his incredibly busy sched-

ule to come to the summit and give our

keynote address. It was an impressive

way to kick off the summit. Babbitt

spoke eloquently about the unique

challenges of the helicopter realm.

He praised efforts already made by

so many in the industry to active-

ly improve safety awareness and to

implement safety programs. One key

theme of his remarks was the need for

professionalism and improved deci-

sion-making skills, not only in helicop-

ter operations, but across the aviation

industry in general. You can read more

about Babbitt’s remarks on page 12 and

the panels are featured throughout

our Rotorcraft Report section. Videos

from the event can be seen on our

just-launched Safety & Training Video

Channel: www.aviationtoday.com/

rw/safety_training_channel/

Thanks to all who came and made

the event so great!

The Staff and Writers of Rotor and Wing would like to extend our deepest condolences to the families and col-

leagues of the fallen crews of the lost U.S. Air Force HH-60G combat rescue helicopter downed on June 9, 2010 in

the Sangin district of Afghanistan while performing their perennial, heroic, life-saving mission in harms way. These

crews embody and immortalize their motto, “…these things we do, that others may live.”

Lost:

* 1st Lt. Joel C. Gentz , 25, of Grass Lake, Mich. Combat Rescue Officer, 58 RQS Nellis AFB, Nev.

* Staff Sgt. David C. Smith , 26, of Eight Mile, Ala. Flight Engineer, 66th RQS, Nellis AFB, Nev.

* Tech. Sgt. Michael P. Flores , 31, of San Antonio. Pararescueman, 48th RQS Davis Monthan AFB, Ariz.

* Senior Airman Benjamin D. White , 24, of Erwin, Tenn. Pararescueman, 48th RQS Davis Monthan AFB, Ariz.

Injured:

The USAF has not released the names of the surviving injured.

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