Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopters provide a huge advantage – locating, stabilizing, and extracting – where every second matters. Often operating in harsh, complex environments, SAR helicopters require the latest, most reliable technology to perform multiple missions. Universal Avionics offers versatile, all-weather, cost-effective solutions for SAR mission success.
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
- Multi-spectral Enhanced Vision System (EVS) sensor to assist with landing zone obstacle clearance
- Perform low altitude SAR patterns and Transition to Hover with FMS/MMMS while maintaining head-up with Synthetic Vision System (SVS)
- Night Vision Goggle (NVG) capability
- Enhanced safety and situational awareness in degraded visual environments
- Traffic management assistance and terrain avoidance
- Fly short and steep helicopter approaches, including Localizer Performance (LP) approaches
- Overall reduction in pilot workload
- Increased accuracy when flying narrow approaches into charted helipads
- Configurable FMS/MMMS for greater-than-standard-rate turns
- Increased equipment reliability