FAA Promotes Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Safety

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is trying to make Helicopter Emergency Medical Service flights safer. Last year saw the number of fatal crashes increase "sharply", according to the FAA. And now while the FAA pursues new rules that support National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations, it is aggressively promoting "significant" short-term safety initiatives that don't require rulemaking, such as: 
• Encourage risk management training to flight crews so that they can make more analytical decisions about whether to launch on a flight. 
• Better training for night operations and responding to inadvertent flight into deteriorating weather conditions. 
• Promote technology such as night vision goggles (NVGs), terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS) and radar altimeters. 
• Provide airline-type FAA oversight for operators. Identify regional FAA HEMS operations and maintenance inspectors to help certificate new operators and review the operations of existing companies.
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