Safety
Euro Group Offers Guide To Safe Single-pilot Helo Ops

The European Helicopter Safety Team (Ehest) has published a “training leaflet” for single-pilot operations, in a bid to curb accidents stemming from poor decision-making. The document highlights common errors and suggests strategies to prevent a pilot from being caught in a fatal spiral of events after having chosen the wrong option.

“The majority of fatal crashes are attributable to decision errors rather than perceptual or execution errors,” the authors say. In other words, the problem doesn’t lie with a pilot’s failure to execute a correct decision. Rather, it lies with the pilot’s poor judgment in making an incorrect decision at the outset.

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