FAA tightens helicopter safety rules near airports
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The FAA is suspending visual separation between airplanes and helicopters, now requiring radar for safety after recent near-misses in Texas and California.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford have announced a new measure to enhance safety in areas where helicopters often cross both arrival and departure paths near busy airports.
The notice suspends the practice of allowing helicopter pilots to rely on visual separation to avoid striking other aircraft, as happened during last year’s deadly midair collision in Washington.
US regulators are ordering air traffic controllers to use radar separation in high-traffic airspace following the 2025 mid-air collision between a passenger jet and army helicopter in Washington, DC that killed 67 people.
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