HELICOPTER SAFETY - ACHIEVING THE NEXT LEVEL 4-6 June 2007 Sao Paulo, Brazil Roy Fox Chief, Flight Safety

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3 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document B3/L Light Single Light Twin Inter- mediate Twin Medium Single/ Twin Tilt-rotor Fielded Commercial Product Strategy Toward Safety Series 206 Series JAROPS Compliant NMT Low-cost Safety 206/407 Field upgrades, Then add to production & other models

4 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document 429 SPIFR in Hostile/Congested areas Certification in process Flown 173 kts (110% of Vne) First flight Feb 27th Latest Part 27 Amendments Flown to 20,000 ft PSI – Stay in Limits

5 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document U.S. Fleet: Helicopter and Occupant Safety

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7 20-years Bell Civil Turbine Worldwide ( , 50 million hours) AW = Airworthiness failures Bell’s Goal is to reduce accidents by 80% over the next ten years Part 27/29 Part 33

8 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Bell’s Worldwide Fleet  Bell active fleet (14,933 A/C)  Model 47 family10.6%  Civil turbine models52.0%  Military surplus9.1%  Military (include V22)28.3% Intervention study of Bell civil turbines (fleet which Bell can most influence). 5 million hours ( ) Use applicable outcomes to influence other Bell fleets. Worldwide Accident Locations: USA = 38.3% Canada = 14.3% Others = 47.4% Achieving 80% reduction requires focus on fielded A/C Bell 35.5% World Civil Helicopters

9 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Bell Helicopter Accident Causes AW: Airworthiness/Material Failure Non-Engine AW: All Aircraft Parts Other Than Engine

10 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Bell’s IHST Safety Approach Underway Safety Keys - Implementing Technology to Understand Cockpit Actions and Using Targeted Pilot Training  Bell goal of 80% accident rate reduction in 10 years  Initial focus on largest 206/407 fielded fleet (83% of Bell civil turbine accidents) Safety Mitigation Packages Package 1: BASIC (55% of accidents)  Targeted Pilot Training/Safety Culture (Recurring Effort)  New Equipment  Cockpit Information Recorder (CIR) crash hardened, cockpit camera, GPS, microphone, vibration monitoring etc.  Existing Systems  Wire Strike Protection System (WSPS) Package 2: ALERT (13% of accidents) Performance Situation Indicator (PSI) Package 3: VISION Enhancements with Electronic Display (15% of accidents)  Evaluating Tail Rotor Strike Camera & Enhanced Vision System (EVS)

11 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Cost-Effective: Information Gained With Minimal Certificated System Disruption Cockpit Information Instruments & Pilot actions Critical Performance Parameters T/R Drive Vibrations Ambient Sounds GPS Wire Strike Protection System Package #1 - Basic Crash Hardened Cockpit Information Recorder (CIR) Operator’s Helicopter Flight Data Management -Standardize operations -Reduce hot starts -Asset protection -Reduced costs Accident investigation -Identify root causes -Know what happened -Faster field correction responses Airborne Ground Performance Situation Indication: Avoid out-of-envelope Package #2 - Alert External camera - reduce T/R strikes Package #3 - Vision

12 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Added Switch Guard Worked in 1990, CIR Camera Could Have Identified in 1980? Fuel Switch Guard Added 1990 AD Forced Guard 1995

13 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Accident Causes (%)

14 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Targeted Pilot Training  Beyond present In-house/Customer Training (Professional Pilot Program initiated in 2006 for Instructors)  New Targeted Pilot Training  Specific training on actual accident causal elements.  Integrate in In-house & BTA traveling teams/FTDs  Portable FTDs modified with accident causal modules. Pilot Training Overlaps Many Interventions

15 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document CIR 1st Flight: Recording What Really Happened If We Understand – We Can Correct, Quickly

16 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document CIR Information Flight Trace On Google Earth

17 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Helicopter Operations Monitoring Program (HOMP)  Determines operational issues by trending  Usage  Exceedences  Hot start protection  Identify operational hazards  Ground station monitored/software analyses  T/R vibration monitoring  Asset monitoring – minimize aircraft damage  Extends management oversight to remote sites.  Part of Flight Data Management (FDM) Every Day Use – Part of a SMS (Safety Management System)

18 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Package 2 - Performance Situation Indicator (PSI)  Accidents due to pilot demanding more performance than is available in aircraft.  Sense approach to  Inadvertent Hover Out of Ground Effect  PSI alerts pilot of approaching aircraft envelope limits.

19 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Package 3: Vision A: T/R Strike: Rear-view video camera for hover and turning B: Inability to see in dark, fog, brownout/whiteouts: Mitigation: Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS). IR Cameras can see through some obscuration levels Brownout with EVS CFIT in VFR requires being under full control. Vertigo occurs in less than 2 minutes without visual cues, then out-of-control. Visual loss issue – not CFIT

20 Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the disclosure notice of this document Summary Bell Goal of 80% Accident Rate Reduction in 10 years is achievable with 3 packages (fielded 206/407 fleet of 4,000+ aircraft) Benefits:  LIVES SAVED  Customer safety image improves  Customer lower costs/losses due to fewer accidents & improved operations. - Bell aircraft accident rates approaching airlines. - Faster response to field problems Pathway to achieve Goal of 80% reduction in accident rates in 10 years

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