DISCOVER THE VUICHARD RECOVERY TECHNIQUE - CLAUDE VUICHARD
Mon Sep 18, 09:00 - Tue Sep 26, 17:00
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HELICOPTER SAFETY SEMINARJOHANNESBURG | DURBAN | CAPE TOWN
Discover the Vuichard Recovery Technique by Swiss Pilot, Claude Vuichard, who pioneered the Vuichard Recovery Technique to escape Vortex Ring State . Learn from the man himself.
An event exclusively for Commercial & Private Pilots and is proudly brought to you by Dr Werner Barkhuizen.
All profits from this event will be donated to VRASF in Switzerland. To learn more, please visit www.vrasf.org
COST: R 999 per pilot excluding flying costs. Own helicopters allowed.
2017 SEMINAR DATES & VENUES:
JOHANNESBURG (EVENT 1)
Henley Air, Rand Airport
DAY 1: Sept 18 - DAY 2: Sept 19
DURBAN
BAC Helicopters, Greystones Park Heliport
DAY 1: Sept 20 - DAY 2: Sept 21
CAPE TOWN
HPT, Cape Town International Airport
DAY 1: Sept 22 - DAY 2: Sept 23
JOHANNESBURG (EVENT 2)
NAC, Grand Central Airport
DAY 1: Sept 25 - DAY 2: Sept 26AGENDA:
AGENDA
DAY ONE:
- 09:00 - 13:00 Lecture
- 14:00 - 17:00 Flying
- 09:00 - 17:00 Flying
SEMINAR OVERVIEW
Seminar Topics to be covered will include:
- CRM Definition
- Human Factors in accidents and incidents
- Errors: design, control and decision errors
- SA Situational Awareness
- First Point of Recognition
- Influence of HF in decision errors
- Perception
- Influence of personality in operation
- Readiness to assume a risk
- Hazard and risk
- Communication
- Closed loop
- Reflexes
- Feedback
- Expectation
- Negative transfers
- Overconfidence
- Stress
- Mental overload
- Rational Decision Making
- Avoidance of white or brown out accidents
- Tail rotor accidents
- Dynamic rollover accidents
- Recognition for outside landings
- Vuichard Recovery for VRS escape
- Vuichard quick stops technique
- Vuichard slope landing technique
- Vuichard autorotation techniques developed for mountain operation, confined area and at night
- Avoidance to enter inadvertently in IMC
- Vuichard instrument scanning technique
- Helicopter Emergency Malfunction Systematic
ABOUT CLAUDE VUICHARD
Vuichard retired from the Swiss civil aviation authority in December, after a 35-year career in which he racked up more than 16,000 hours flying helicopters in mountain-rescue and other specialised roles. He developed a technique for recovering an aircraft when it enters vortex ring state conditions that worked even in mountains, where the conventional method will not help.
“The old technique was to reduce the power and leave the vortex by flying forward,” he says. “But you lose altitude quite a lot, and if you're close to the ground, you have an accident. My technique allows you to go out of the vortex sideways, using the tail rotor for thrust.”
The lateral movement shifts the aircraft out of the downward phase of the vortex, through the upward phase, and away from the disturbed air. The vortex is exited within a second, without any significant loss of altitude.
In 2011, Vuichard flew with Robinson Helicopters' chief safety instructor, Tim Tucker, who was impressed. The Vuichard Recovery Technique has been added to Robinson's teaching materials; Tucker has advocated for the method with the U.S, FAA, which is evaluating it, and the Los Angeles Police Department, which has been using it since January 2017. Persuading every helicopter training course to rewrite its materials – and arguing for the reprogramming of every helicopter simulator, which he says do not accurately model vortex ring state conditions – is keeping Vuichard busy.
He has set up a non-profit organization, the Vuichard Recovery Aviation Safety Foundation (www.vrasf.org) and is at EBACE, trying to win support for his technique, trying to save lives.
For more info, visit www.vrasf.org
ABOUT THE SPONSOR: DR WERNER BARKHUIZEN
About the Sponsor: Dr Werner Barkhuizen
Dr. Werner Barkhuizen has been a keen helicopter pilot for over 24 years.
With his appreciation of the underlying variables that drive human behaviour, Werner focused his Masters & Doctoral dissertations on pilot behaviour and cognition.
As a practicing and registered psychologist, he has consulted in numerous organisational environments, ranging from listed to non-listed entities in the banking, insurance, consumer goods, industrial and mining sectors. Having had extensive experience in transforming and leveraging people and organisational potential, he consulted to several global corporations. In so doing, he developed a deep understanding of the dynamic forces that drive and achieve organisational strategy and ultimately create organisational capability and shareholder value.
With his appreciation of the underlying variables that drive human behaviour, Werner focused his Masters & Doctoral dissertations on pilot behaviour and cognition.
As a practicing and registered psychologist, he has consulted in numerous organisational environments, ranging from listed to non-listed entities in the banking, insurance, consumer goods, industrial and mining sectors. Having had extensive experience in transforming and leveraging people and organisational potential, he consulted to several global corporations. In so doing, he developed a deep understanding of the dynamic forces that drive and achieve organisational strategy and ultimately create organisational capability and shareholder value.
ABOUT CLAUDE VUICHARD
About Claude Vuichard
Vuichard retired from the Swiss civil aviation authority in December, after a 35-year career in which he racked up more than 16,000 hours flying helicopters in mountain-rescue and other specialised roles. He developed a technique for recovering an aircraft when it enters vortex ring state conditions that worked even in mountains, where the conventional method will not help.
“The old technique was to reduce the power and leave the vortex by flying forward,” he says. “But you lose altitude quite a lot, and if you're close to the ground, you have an accident. My technique allows you to go out of the vortex sideways, using the tail rotor for thrust.”
The lateral movement shifts the aircraft out of the downward phase of the vortex, through the upward phase, and away from the disturbed air. The vortex is exited within a second, without any significant loss of altitude.
In 2011, Vuichard flew with Robinson Helicopters' chief safety instructor, Tim Tucker, who was impressed. The Vuichard Recovery Technique has been added to Robinson's teaching materials; Tucker has advocated for the method with the U.S, FAA, which is evaluating it, and the Los Angeles Police Department, which has been using it since January 2017.
Persuading every helicopter training course to rewrite its materials – and arguing for the reprogramming of every helicopter simulator, which he says do not accurately model vortex ring state conditions – is keeping Vuichard busy.
He has set up a non-profit organization, the Vuichard Recovery Aviation Safety Foundation (www.vrasf.org) and is at EBACE, trying to win support for his technique, trying to save lives.
For more info, visit www.vrasf.org
“The old technique was to reduce the power and leave the vortex by flying forward,” he says. “But you lose altitude quite a lot, and if you're close to the ground, you have an accident. My technique allows you to go out of the vortex sideways, using the tail rotor for thrust.”
The lateral movement shifts the aircraft out of the downward phase of the vortex, through the upward phase, and away from the disturbed air. The vortex is exited within a second, without any significant loss of altitude.
In 2011, Vuichard flew with Robinson Helicopters' chief safety instructor, Tim Tucker, who was impressed. The Vuichard Recovery Technique has been added to Robinson's teaching materials; Tucker has advocated for the method with the U.S, FAA, which is evaluating it, and the Los Angeles Police Department, which has been using it since January 2017.
Persuading every helicopter training course to rewrite its materials – and arguing for the reprogramming of every helicopter simulator, which he says do not accurately model vortex ring state conditions – is keeping Vuichard busy.
He has set up a non-profit organization, the Vuichard Recovery Aviation Safety Foundation (www.vrasf.org) and is at EBACE, trying to win support for his technique, trying to save lives.
For more info, visit www.vrasf.org