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On Thursday, Dec. 7, in Palm Springs, for the second year NAAA is hosting a
Flying in the Wire and Obstruction Environment Course, acclaimed by professional airplane and helicopter operators world-wide. This year’s course will be a full-day, eight-hour course compared to last year’s half-day course. The instructors give low-altitude aviators the essential skills needed to safely operate an aircraft in wire and obstruction environments. This course is for both aircraft and helicopter pilots. Learn how to identify signs of wires and why ag aviators hit wires they already knew were there. This course may very well save your life – wire strike accidents continue to harm the ag aviation industry. In 2022, there were eleven wire strike accidents, one of which was fatal. So far in the 2023 season, there have been eleven wire strike accidents, five of which were fatal.
Register
here for only $150 per person.
The course will be taught by Utilities / Aviation Specialists Inc. (UAS), a unique group of aviation safety practitioners who provide safety auditing, specialized training, installation of safety management systems, and technical aviation consulting. They provide mission-specific expertise in specialized applications which require skill sets above those found in most routine transport operations.