Monthly Report
As of: 10 September 2018
The USHST, a regional partner to the International Helicopter Safety Team, established a goal of reducing the fatal U.S. helicopter accident rate by 20% by 2020. (0.61 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours) The CY18 USHST metric for 30 June 2018 is 0.71 fatal accident per 100,000 flight hours.
OUTREACH
The Personal/Private industry continues to be the leader in fatal accidents. The fatal accident rate for this industry is 5.19 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours, more than double the aerial application industry with 2.01 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours. Since 01 January 2018, the Personal/Private industry has experienced 19 accidents with 4 fatal accidents and 11 fatalities. Over a five year period (2012 – 2016) the Personal/Private industry accounted for only 3% of the flight hours.
Call to ACTION!
According to the 2017 FAA U.S. Civil Airmen Statistics there are 32,962 helicopter pilots in the U.S. The FAA Safety Team has only 9,219 (28%) helicopter pilots registered for Safer Skies Through Education program. The benefit for pilots involved in a continuing education program has a Return on Safety Investment that beats any stock or mutual fund on Wall Street. Also, if you are participating in the FAASafety Team Wings program and you are involved in an event it will be extremely advantageous when adjudicating your case! Please encourage other pilots to join, be a mentor to another helicopter pilot who is not engaged and see the difference that it will make in our community! This effort will prove to be a collective effort in reducing the accident rate and fatal accident rate and ultimately that save lives!
Please see the entire monthly report for August 2018 at:
https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2018/Sep/USHST_Monthly_UPDATE_2018_-_09.pdf or
http://ushst.org/Portals/0/PDF/USHST%20Monthly%20UPDATE%202018.pdf?ver=2018-09-11-091039-017
For any questions regarding this notice please contact Scott Tyrrell of the Rotorcraft Standardization Branch, AIR-612, at 817-222-5121 or email at scott.tyrrell@faa.gov.
