Professional Pilot, March 2018

to services that supply spare parts and perform repairs The Flyscan service as stated by the company is a true predictive maintenance capability to analyze HUMS data Flyscan is now integrated with the Airbus HCare program and offers 3 levels of service where no infrastructure is required to capture or manage the data The different services include data transfer with varying degrees of frequency of reporting up to a hotline service Leonardo Leonardo Helicopters is providing Heliwise Services and connecting them from the aircraft to the operators PEDs Heliwise services include what they call Advanced Anomaly Detection AAD and Advanced Vibration Data Mining AVDM tools to get to the answers and reduce the analysis workload Heliwise is designed to operate in a web based environment and like some of the others will grow in the amount of data provided and the graphics user interface to support maintenance actions and business level decision making You can now download the Heliwise app directly to your smartphone to monitor either a single aircraft or a whole fleet 84 PROFESSIONAL PILOT March 2018 Bell Bell Helicopters MissionLink is an OEM integrated solution provided for current Bell production helicopters Touted as the cornerstone and missing link to more reliable service and greater productivity MissionLink can include vibration health data for drive systems engines and rotors MissionLink also captures flight parameter data and the services offer phases of flight breakdown from the Bell 429 and 412EPI As an indication of the standards design aspects of a modern helicopter all of the current MissionLink features and some planned for future release are provided for the Bell 525 Relentless Bell goes on to say that their goal is to make maintaining an aircraft effortless and their system will provide operational and financial peace of mind Bell has introduced MissionLink and has coined its HUMS product as Intelligence Analysis Intuitive Free And to get the message out they have tied the integration of MissionLink into part of the options list presented to buyers when purchasing a helicopter The company is clear in its message Bell Helicopter is currently offering the benefits of MissionLink to our customers at no additional charge When was the last time you saw that on an OEM website Honeywell Honeywells Sky Connect Tracker III and the Aspire 200 high data rate communications system are also some recent innovations in the HUMS market providing the means to communicate the data Aspire 200 was actually designed for helos so now operators have a means and technology that gets the data from their helicopter to the service department to be analyzed Sky Connect Tracker III also provides Flight Data Monitoring FDM as well as condition data for rotor blades transmission engine parameters and flight controls The system also monitors vibration And if a problem or discrepancy occurs the data is automatically sent to the user or dispatch Sky Connect Tracker III is also set up for mobile apps and provides aircraft location mapping alert management and 2 way messaging capabilities to your PED Honeywell has also entered the portable carry on vibration monitoring product field with the Vibrex 2000 that can collect and provide a user analysis of components like the drive train gearbox shafts rotor system and other components This device includes a small data acquisition set display unit software and a carry on sensors kit The VXP also integrates with tachometer sensors through out the aircraft The Enhanced Vibrex 2000 EV2K has been developed to provide some additional features such as aircraft balance charts and propeller balance saves and recall Future of helo health monitoring While I was driving recently my truck announced on my flight display it was time for a service and system check The options offered were to proceed by pushing yes and so I took the bait My machine went through some hidden process while I drove to my destination A few minutes later the system announced the maintenance review and data transmission event was complete and that an email had been sent to me I received a report with color coded graphics on various parts of the truck all was green The aviation industry is fast approaching this kind of readiness check its the mission that counts not the process and thats where the money is Glenn Connor is president of Discover Technology Intl He is a pilot and a researcher specializing in the development of enhanced vision systems and advanced avionics The helicopter industry is rapidly expanding the use of iPad and smartphone applications to manage a single aircraft or entire fleets through the support of HUMs Leonardo helicopters Heliwise Services is designed to operate in a web based environment and Bells MissionLink is an OEM integrated solution provided for current Bell production helicopters