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As 2015 comes to a close, COPA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the COPA eFlight a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7.
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By Adam Hunt
From Jan. 15: André Durocher, the driving force behind the Pontiac Airpark, recently announced that he has ended the project. The 550-acre residential fly-in community was slated to have included not only a large number of home lots, but also a clubhouse, two runways and a seaplane base on the Ottawa River. There is also an existing equestrian facility next door. "Unfortunately, after 12 years of great efforts, I only sold one lot, so I decided to close the project," Durocher said.
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By Mark Huber
From July 2: For years, we've heard much about the coming helicopter pilot shortage, brought on in no small part by the unwinding of the U.S. military to its smallest size since before World War II. Evidence now suggests that this shortage is now upon us and that it will hit the helicopter EMS industry disproportionately. Consider the following factors.
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By Ryan Clark
From March 5: A California jury recently found an airplane mechanic liable for the crashing death of a Napa physician, awarding the victim's family $13.3 million. This decision effectively flies in the face of a previous National Transportation Safety Board finding that initially blamed the tragedy on pilot error. The jury's decision once again raises the importance of regular aircraft maintenance and preemptive inspections.
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By Mark Huber
From July 30: A rather public debate has been raging all summer up in Ontario with regard to what are safe nighttime operations for the province's HEMS provider ORNGE. The fatal nighttime crash in 2013 of one of the ORNGE's S-76As while taking off into a "black hole" has resulted in a series of reforms. They include not conducting night operations at some 90 heliports/helistops located in the province's mostly rural northern areas. ORNGE also is working to shed some "green" on the problem.
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By Mark Huber
From Jan. 15: A growing overall trend among the criminal element is taking blindside pot shots of police, firefighters and EMS professionals — on the ground and in the air. In the case of the latter, it doesn't much matter if the weapon is a gun or a laser pointer — the results can be the same: loss of aircraft and loss of life. Yet the penalties, depending on the choice of weapon, can vary widely based on the prosecutors' interpretation of the law and whether state or federal laws are applied.
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By Mark Huber
 From Nov. 5: For a number of years now, the National EMS Pilots Association has been promoting an idea its calls the Enroute Decision Point, or EDP for short. I prefer to call it the "enroute death point" — because if you fly past it, that could easily be your fate. It's a really simple idea that any pilot can relate to because we've all done it on marginal weather flights. As we approach the soup, we slow down and drop lower. It's stupid. It's wrong. And any pilot who tells you he hasn't done it is a liar.
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By Mark Huber
From Feb. 26: Is it an extreme sport or just extremely stupid? That's the question I had after a recent PR blurb from the Los Angeles County Sheriff caught my eye. Rescues performed by the department's volunteer search-and-rescue teams, often with the assistance of Air Rescue 5, increased 20 percent in 2014 from the previous year. The department attributed most of this increase to "social media and the posting of extreme videos, showing hikers performing high-risk outdoor adventures."
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By Mark Huber
From May 21: It's happened again. Another EMS rescuer has plunged to her death during a hoisting operation. This one happened recently in Texas. Nurse Kristin McClain, 46, somehow became disconnected while ascending to a STAR Flight Airbus Helicopters H145 during the night-time rescue of an injured hiker. Hoisting in the dark is always a tricky business. Particularly at night, hooking onto the right ring requires extra time and extra care, but mistakes can happen under any conditions.
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By Jeremy Parkin
From June 25: Bell's twin-engined 429 is seeing greater success than any previous light twin the Texas-based manufacturer has ever produced, already eclipsing each of the 222, 230, 427 and 430 models in sheer airframe numbers. Yet, a big divide continues to be seen in its marketplace. The 429 was built around a set of regulations from the FAA that provide minimum specification and performance requirements to gain certification for rotorcraft with a gross weight of up to 7,000 pounds. Bell, however, wants to be able to fly the helicopter at 7,500 pounds.
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By Mark Huber
From Nov. 12: Surveillance cameras are everywhere today — where we shop, live, work and drive. Some are placarded with signs, some are hidden, but they are there, and there is no escaping it. Except in the cockpit. For years certain pilots' unions have vociferously fought the inclusion of cameras in the cockpit on privacy grounds, an argument that seems to be evaporating in the wake of various pilot suicide crashes in recent years among the airlines.
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