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USAIG started the Safety Bucks program in the 1990s to\nassist and incentivize policyholders to make recurrent helicopter simulator\ntraining standard practice. It was later expanded to include helicopter\nmaintenance technician training and some in-aircraft training activities. In 2015 it was integrated into USAIG\u2019s\nbroader Performance Vector safety initiative, which provides a portfolio of\nsafety services from which eligible policyholders can make one annual\nselection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSafety Bucks is a great option as the annual safety benefit\nfor many of our helicopter policyholders,\u201d said Kevin Kovarik, USAIG Senior\nVice President and Lead for Rotary Wing Underwriting. \u201cWe are proud to boost\nthe reach and positive impact of our policyholders\u2019 safety and training\nresources, and excited to continue expanding opportunities with Airbus\nHelicopters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AHNA Training Center in Texas boasts a wide range of\nopportunities for operators to apply Safety Bucks. The training center leverages its experienced\ninstructors and modernized fleet of company-owned training aircraft and\ntraining devices to deliver world-class initial and recurrent maintenance and\nflight training courses for the light-through-heavy range of Airbus Helicopters\nmodels. The AHNA Training Center looks\nforward to the upcoming rollout of a new level D H145 full flight simulator by\nits simulation partner Helisim LLC, which already owns and operates AS350,\nEC1335, and EC145 simulation devices. \nThese simulators complement Airbus Helicopters\u2019 initial, recurrent, and\nsafety courses such as Inadvertent Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IIMC),\nwhich was designed to combat the increasing number of fatal IIMC accidents by\nproviding pilots with effective avoidance and recovery techniques. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
USAIG, Airbus Helicopters, and Helisim recognize that IIMC\ntraining addresses a critical safety threat faced by the entire helicopter\nindustry. That triggered a discussion about how USAIG could encourage its\npolicyholders to have pilots attend the IIMC course, and a limited-time\nopportunity was born. USAIG and the AHNA Training Center will extend the value\nof a $2,500 USAIG Safety Bucks certificate to fully cover one pilot\u2019s full IIMC\ncourse tuition (currently a $3,900 value) for courses booked within the\nremainder of calendar year 2020 and commenced before July 1, 2021. Safety Bucks will retain their standard face\nvalue when applied to any other AHNA Training Center courses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWe believe the IIMC course is a must-have for any\nhelicopter pilot,\u201d said Lindsay Cunningham, Head of Customer Training for AHNA,\n\u201cand this limited-time offer is a great way for operators who are USAIG\npolicyholders to benefit from the course while deriving maximum advantage from\ntheir Safety Bucks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
USAIG continually upgrades its popular Performance Vector\nsuite of safety programs to keep pace with changes and improvements in aviation\nsafety protocols. For additional information about the program, check the\nSafety tab at www.usaig.com or contact Paul Ratt\u00e9, USAIG Director of Aviation\nSafety Programs at: safety@usaig.com. For more information about AHNA Training\nPrograms visit https:\/\/www.airbus.com\/us\/en\/helicopters\/training.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USAIG and Airbus Helicopters North America (AHNA) have a robust tradition of teaming to encourage helicopter operators to consistently participate in high-quality recurrent training endorsed by the manufacturers of their aircraft. The AHNA Training Center in Grand Prairie, TX, has long been a USAIG Safety Bucks program participant. That program enables policyholders that operate turbine-powered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Helisim.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16203,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/16203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}