Issue 108 | July 2020

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In this Police Aviation issue:

Provider Profile: San Diego Police Department Air Support Unit

Aerial assets of the US Customs and Border Patrol

The cost of special missions insurance

Sharing experiences and CRM as a police aviator

Automatic reactions: When technology isn’t an asset

Multi-agency management: Designing, creating and building a response system

Case Study: AirLec Ambulance

Interview: Cameron Curtis, AAMS President and CEO

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Airliner cockpit

When does reliance on automation become over-reliance?

With more technology than ever before available to pilots to assist in operational decision-making, Mike Biasatti considers whether an overreliance on automation poses a clear and present danger to the...

Mandy Langfield

French Air Force EC-725 working with a USAF C-130 to evacuate victims during a training exercise © Barry Smith

Multi-agency disaster management

Barry Smith discusses how relief organisations can work together effectively after a disaster by designing, creating, and building an effective response system

firefighting helicopter

ATSB safety analysis of aerial firefighting in Australia

The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued its safety analysis of aerial firefighting occurrences in Australia, considering the risks inherent to the operators and finding that half of all...

Mandy Langfield

aerial firefighting erickson

Aerial firefighting in Europe

Brittany Wise, Vice-President and General Manager of Civil Aviation Services at Erickson Incorporated, discusses the eradication and control of wildfires

Sponsored by Erickson: Leading the way in Innovation

Brittany (Wise) Black