GLIDE SLOPE INDICATOR - HVLAS - SHIPBORNE HELICOPTER VISUAL LANDING AIDS SYSTEM
Glide slope indicator - Shipborne helicopter visual langing aids system - CILAS - Safecopter is a complete lighting system formed by a Glide Slope Indicator with a lighting deck system. The SAFECOPTER provides day and night, in all weather, perfect safety for pilots during landing of helicopters.
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Safecopter comprises all equipment corresponding to takeoff and landing phases: ship identification, approach, landing, and securing. It contains the operator table(MMI-Man Machine Interface), the electrical distribution cabinet and other elements as required.
Safecopter complies with the standardsSTANAG, MIL-STD, GAMEG 13.
Specifications
SAFECOPTER includes the equipment Homing beacon GSI, Glide Slope Indicator - Stanag 1236 HRB, Horizontal Reference Bar Enter lights Deck edge lights Corner lights Obstruction lights Line-up lights Feux de hangar Hangar wash lights Shaving floodlights HIFR, Helicopter In Flight Refuelling Lights Traffic lights Service floodlights Wave-off lights Control panel Control cabinet
CILAS proposes a number of related services
Lighting simulations. Setting to work / Harbour acceptance tests. Documentation: installation, utilization, maintenance, electrical wiring diagrams. Spare parts and tools. Training courses: utilization, maintenance.
Interfaces
Power supply: 115 / 220 / 440 VAC (3 phases) @ 50 – 60 Hz. Roll & Pitch data: RS-422 with the VRU, Vertical Reference Unit.
Background
Over 30 years ago, CILAS created the first shipborne helicopter landing systems. The first system was called ALAH (Shipborne Helicopter Light Landing Aid System), featuring a GSI (Glide Slope Indicator) as well as a Horizontal ReferenceBar (HRB). These systems have been used for several years now by the operational units of French and international naval forces. They have proven their top-notch reliability and operational worthiness under cold, hot and humid weather conditions.
More recently, CILAS created the second generation of such equipment under the name Safecopter. This new system offers more exhaustive takeoff and landingassistance with a system of markers and a set of signals for ships fitted with a helicopter bridge. The architecture used by CILAS is based on digital technology and LEDs.
Over 100 Safecopter systems are already operational worldwide on a large spectrum of vessels from relatively small ones such as the AGNES 200, up to helicoptercarriers 220 meters long. Moreover, our shipborne landing system is considered the solution of choice on most new ships.
Applications
Military and freight ships. Megasized yachts. Hydrographic ocean boats.