Rotorcraft Technology: Cockpit Recorders
American Eurocopter and the Bristow Group’s Air Logistics unit have partnered separately with “augmented reality solutions” provider Appareo Systems (Booth

American Eurocopter and the Bristow Group’s Air Logistics unit have partnered separately with “augmented reality solutions” provider Appareo Systems (Booth No. 4537) to develop a low-cost device that is intended to provide some of the safety and training benefits of fully certified cockpit voice and flight data recorders.

American Eurocopter’s cockpit information recording system (CIRS) can be retrofitted to Eurocopter models with analog systems that do not already have cockpit voice recorders (CVR) or flight data recorders (FDR) on board. While the system is not crashworthy, it is expected to be survivable in 90 percent of all accidents and yield video at an adequate resolution for accident analysis, training and quality assurance reviews, officials said.

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