EVAS maker VisionSafe launches factory training program: Team brings training to the customer
Contact: Kurt PoruksPress Release
EVAS cockpit smoke protection system training options expand with EVAS-OnSight.
NBAA LAS VEGAS Booth N1726, October 7 2011: Days ahead of the opening of the 64th annual NBAA convention in Las Vegas EVAS manufacturer VisionSafe goes formal with factory training program dubbed – EVAS-OnSight. Aircraft equipped with the Emergency Vision Assurance System, better known as EVAS have corrected a known safety deficiency to the FAA’s recommended part 25 standards for flight deck smoke protection. In response to customer input related to EVAS training options, VisionSafe Corporation has added a new initiative called “EVAS – OnSight” that provides a comprehensive factory training program available to flight crews “onsite” at your location. The program eliminates travel costs, scheduling problems, and your overall cost of EVAS training.
VisionSafe’s “EVAS – OnSight” training program familiarizes pilots with the correct deployment of and procedures for the EVAS system. EVAS – OnSight customers choose the training environment because the courses are offered in customer aircraft or in the now familiar mobile cockpit smoke simulator. EVAS – OnSight has numerous safety benefits to the flight crew including the replication of an actual smoke emergency using our enhanced “dry” smoke water based smoke system.
Crews may have had the opportunity to see how well EVAS performed during one of our product demonstrations, “but a demo is not training, and we know that the best safety device is a well trained pilot” notes program manager Kurt Poruks, “EVAS – OnSight completes the process, and we are pleased that we can offer this program”. Most EVAS operators were convinced during a product demonstration. Visionsafe believes that EVAS – OnSight will take the crew’s current knowledge base for EVAS and expand it into a classroom session and a simulated smoke in the cockpit emergency for pilots. Hands on training is really the only way to completely familiarize pilots with EVAS. Production EVAS units are designed for a single use deployment and can’t be repacked in the field. Deploying your own EVAS units for training would require Service and Overhaul and incur a significant cost for a flight department, EVAS – OnSight brings the full experience to the customer’s doorstep.
“We will bring everything needed for the training with us, and each participant will get the full experience” explained Poruks, quipping “VisionSafe- committed to our customers’ safety – because - When you can’t see, you can’t fly.
About Smoke and Vision
The FAA recommends that aircraft meet higher standards for continuous cockpit smoke protection (FAA AC25.109). The Air Line Pilots Association’s (ALPA) in-flight fire project reported more than 1,100 in-flight smoke and fire incidents over only 10 months, causing 360 emergency landings. FAA’s concern about smoke continues - this is still a “serious” problem and the statistics are essentially unchanged (Info 10019 10/6/10). Flight Safety Foundation ranks smoke/fire emergencies as the 3rd highest cause of fatalities. Smoke is also a leading cause of diversions of ETOPS aircraft.
EVAS - winner of the Aerospace Industry Award for Safety, with over 70 FAA and global certifications – has earned acceptance in every segment of aviation. The alarming rate of smoke incidents has been addressed by more than 600 operators, including the US military, FAA, airlines, and corporate flight departments. All have done so using the more than 3000 EVAS systems delivered by VisionSafe.
UPS is the 1st air cargo carrier to commit an entire fleet to EVAS. In 2003 Fed Ex joined industry leader JetBlue Airways as one of the first airlines to address smoke in the cockpit by installing EVAS.
About VisionSafe
VisionSafe Corporation was formed to explore various new ways to provide vision in vision impaired conditions for individuals in common land and air environments as well as marine, submarine, and scuba diving environments. In the process, the company developed and patented the EVAS system for pilots to see to safely control and land when confronted with dense, blinding smoke in the cockpit. The system has been certified by the Federal Aviation Administration since 2001.
