Five-Alpha Releases New DIY Heliport Database Accountability Training Video

Five-Alpha has announced the release of its first online training video on helicopter infrastructure development, entitled “Making Your Infrastructure Relevant.”

This video is a do-it-yourself training program designed to provide the viewer with the knowledge to check, validate, and if necessary, correct infrastructure information in the FAA airport master record database.  With the ever-increasing volume of air traffic occurring across the country,  be it airplanes, helicopters, UAS and soon eVTOL, making sure your infrastructure is properly accounted for in the national database has become a particularly important safety topic.

This video can be viewed for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuKB3SMK-4I

“This video is our first in what we expect to be a long line of educational programs on infrastructure development, accountability and safety.” Says Rex Alexander, president of Five-Alpha. “While it may be a little on the long side, 43-minutes, we cover a tremendous amount of information designed to provide individuals with the information they need to check, validate and fix their infrastructure information in the FAA system.  As our moto says, ‘Knowledge is Power’, and this knowledge can save lives.”

Kim Stevens

Kim Stevens is the publisher of State Aviation Journal, which he founded in 2009. A longtime commercial-rated pilot, he was introduced to state aviation in 1992 as Director of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics, later serving as Deputy Division Director for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division. From 2013 to 2018, he was Director of Communications and Operations for the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in Washington, D.C. Relocating to North Carolina, Kim worked for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for two years and now concentrates solely on the Journal. Prior to his aviation career, Kim spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine business.