While there have been many fluctuations in the offshore oil and gas helicopter market over the years, there has been one constant – the need for the latest in safety advancements and technology. Often serving highly remote locations with constrained operational environments, oil and gas helicopter operators demand cutting-edge upgrades to support a wide range of critical missions. Universal Avionics’ solutions offer the safety, reliability, and efficiency that best meet oil and gas helicopter operators’ needs for performance.
Solutions
- Flight Management System (FMS) / Multi-Mission Management System (MMMS)
- Flat Panel Displays
- Heli-ClearVision™ Head-Wearable Display (HWD) / Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) and Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) Solution
Features & Benefits
- Fly instrument approaches to offshore helicopter rigs with reduced pilot workload
- Fly short and steep helicopter approaches, including Localizer Performance (LP) approaches
- Configurable FMS/MMMS for greater-than-standard-rate turns
- Enhanced safety and situational awareness in degraded visual environments
- FMS Transition to Hover while maintaining head-up operations with Synthetic Vision System (SVS)
- FMS/MMMS Rig Approach and early landing zone recognition/identification with multi-spectral Enhanced Vision System (EVS)
- Increased accuracy when flying narrow approaches into charted helipads
- Increased equipment reliability
- Meets emerging Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) requirements
- Multiple distinct multi-mission patterns to support SAR missions
- Night Vision Goggle (NVG) capability
- Nighttime “Green Deck” 360 traffic pattern and landing while maintaining head-up with flight symbology
- Unique fuel management function of FMS/MMMS