Archive for February, 2012
Skyline Columbus brings helicopter training to Columbus
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Columbus's only flight school has expanded with helicopter training. Skyline Columbus now offers the only helicopter-equipped training courses within 100 miles.
Ala. Coast Guard chopper crash: 1 dead, 3 missing
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
As divers searched the muddy bottom of Alabama's Mobile Bay, a salvage ship was dispatched Wednesday to the sunken wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed on a training mission, leaving one crewmember dead and three others missing.
Chinese helicopter training fails to lift off
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
Dozens of pilots were to be trained at Minnesota State, but that plan has stalled
Spokane Marine killed in helicopter training accident
Saturday, February 25th, 2012
A Spokane man was among the Marines killed in an aviation training accident in Arizona on Wednesday.
Marine training crash in Calif. among deadliest
Friday, February 24th, 2012
A helicopter collision that killed seven Marines — one of the Corps' deadliest aviation training accidents in years — left the military community shaken and was a solemn reminder that preparing for war poses some of the same risks as the real thing.
Ga. Woman: Son Among 7 Killed in Helicopter Crash
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Georgia woman says her son was among 7 US Marines killed in helicopter training crash
Marines seek answers after fatal helo collision
Friday, February 24th, 2012
(The (Phoenix) Arizona Republic) YUMA, Ariz. — The remote areas surrounding this Marine Corps town are favored for helicopter training, in part, because the desert landscape resembles that of war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Helicopter parents take a rest
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
It's too soon to declare the helicopter parent is dead. But the author of a bestselling new parenting book, "Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting,'' and other experts, report a growing eagerness among mothers and fathers to return to the less-intense style practiced by previous generations. It's a loose movement, if it can even be called that, known as ...
German Federal Police Order Frasca FTDs
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Devices Allow NVG, Location-Specific Simulations Frasca International has contracted with the NATO Maintenance & Supply Agency (NAMSA) to deliver two new Helicopter Flight Training Devices (FTDs) to the German Federal Police (BPOL) for the Eurocopter EC155 and AS332, and to upgrade BPOL's existing Frasca-built Eurocopter EC135 FTD to have common technical standards with the new FTDs.
Rescue crews team up for training
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Glen Lake Fire Department trained with the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Park Service for water rescue responses.
