Era Helicopters Gets FAA Approval

Era Helicopters announced U.S. FAA approval of its Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) program. E-FOQA, as it is known at Era, is the first FOQA program approved for
FAR Part 135 operations and Era is the only helicopter operator with an FAA approved FOQA program, according to the company. ”FOQA & MOQA (Maintenance Operations Quality Assurance) are but two of our data programs, which are designed to address quality and safety, and provide continual improvement in providing safe working and flying environments,” Neill Osborne, president of Era Helicopters said. Era has also equipped its helicopter fleet with Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) and Health & Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) and its use of Sagem Avionics’ AGS (Analysis Ground Station) software as its single source software provider.