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A GRAND VISION PG 21 • LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! PG 25
CANADA’S NATIONAL ROTARY-WING MAGAZINE
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Volume 37: Issue 1
Cover Story
– Ascending the Mountain pg 12
DEPARTMENTS
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A Collective Effort
Editorial
On the Fly
Heneghan
Dixon
When the Night is Right
It Can Be Done
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Riding Out the Storm
Blame Einstein
A Pilot’s Nature
COVER
Taylor
Adams
Jones
Yellowhead Helicopters is working to refine its safety culture.
Ascending the safety
mountain is indeed a
challenge. (Photo Courtesy
of Yellowhead Helicopters)
FEATURES
12 Ascending the Mountain
Filling a necessary void pg 17
Roundtable Gurus Ponder Next Steps for Safety
by Matt Nicholls
17 Filling a Necessary Void
A CRM Flight Instructor Course for the Rotary Crowd
by Adam W. Johnson
21 A Grand Vision
Langley Regional Airport is a Growing
Hub of Helicopter Activity
by Paul Dixon
25 Lights, Camera, Action!
Helicopters Continue to Transform the Movie Business
by Paul Dixon
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A Grand Vision
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– Helen Keller
January 2016
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EDITORIAL
Take a Look
Within
MATT NICHOLLS
is editor of Helicopters
t never ceases to amaze me how passionate a conversa-
tion can get when you manage to corral a group of heli-
copter professionals in a room for an extended period of
time, focusing on one subject. It’s insightful, constructive
and downright fun.
This is precisely what transpired in the early morning
hours of Nov. 15 at the Helicopter Association of Canada’s (HAC)
annual convention and trade show in Vancouver, when
Helicopters
conducted a lively industry roundtable with a very worthy group of
industry leaders. Seven experts confined to a room for 60 minutes, all
tasked with a mission to discuss safety in the Canadian market – how
it has transformed, where it is headed and what needs to be done to
make operating environments safer and more secure for all. (Please
see, “Ascending the Mountain,” pg. 12)
The subject matter is as vast and complex as the operations the
professionals in the room are tasked to carry out with their teams
and in planning for the roundtable, determining what subjects to
discuss was hardly a slam dunk. The ongoing flight and duty time
issue, droning on about drones, economic realities, mergers and
acquisitions, finding top talent and employee retention – all were
worth bantering about and this group was keen to share their views
and perspectives.
Yet, safety remains
the
issue that shapes the way suppliers and
operators build and maintain their businesses and it is most defi-
Increasing Safety Levels is a
Shared Responsibility
West Coast Helicopters’ Peter Barratt, for example, pointed out
that the “do as I say, not as I do” philosophy that existed at one time
has been replaced by a much more active commitment from all
operational levels. More and more Canadian operations like West
Coast, have a comprehensive Safety Management System (SMS) and
best practices. Barratt and his team are taking things to a new level
by implementing personality analysis and testing for all pilots to see
which roles might be suitable and which are not.
Such practices have been under scrutiny following the
Germanwings flight 9525 crash in March 2015 – one of aviation’s top
stories of the year. There’s no doubt enhanced psychological testing
of pilots in both the fixed and rotary world is going to be more
prevalent in the months and years ahead.
A better, more comprehensive way to share best practices and
other key safety information was also highlighted by several mem-
bers of the group – an area that is bound to help industry reach new
safety goals. As Valley Helicopter’s Brad Fandrich aptly noted, the
Canadian industry recently went through a prolonged period with-
out a fatal accident – the longest duration in its history. Overall,
accidents continue to diminish, so essentially steps are being made.
Yet, fatal accident numbers remain a concern and the reason num-
bers continue to stay relatively the same are disturbing.
Also disturbing, as Great Slave Helicopter’s Corey Taylor notes, is
a mentality among some clients that when push comes to shove, the
safety rhetoric pro-
jected by upper man-
agement is often
tossed aside when the
time comes to get the
job done. In other
words, two philoso-
phies exist – the per-
ceived safety projec-
tions by corporate
and the “get ’er done”
reality pilots deal with to make clients happy, even while almost
compromising regulations.
The challenge for industry – and it was discussed at length – is to
bridge this gap and ascend to new heights of the safety universe.
Technology, enhanced communication, shared information, bor-
rowed best practices from other industries, education – it will all
help. But the commitment must also come from each individual and
organization with a vested interest. This shared commitment will
produce the seeds for future growth. May 2016 be your safest, most
prosperous year ever.
@Helicopters_Mag
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Without a sound commitment to safety
as the grounding principle, dealing with
other issues would be more complex.
nitely connected to all of these aforementioned issues. Without a
sound safety commitment as a grounding principle, dealing with
other challenges would be even more complex.
While the discussion highlighted the challenges industry is
working through – such as the establishment of a stronger working
relationship with Transport Canada (TC), educating “non-forward-
thinking” clients impervious to the importance of creating a safe
working environment, dealing with economic realities and juggling
the cost of enhanced safety procedures – there were many positives
shared that point to the emergence of a new safety paradigm.
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January 2016

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