TopDeck-equipped S-76 due to fly in Q2 this year
Sikorsky has scheduled the maiden flight of the first Thales TopDeck-equipped Sikorsky S-76D for the second quarter of this year.
Sikorsky has scheduled the maiden flight of the first Thales TopDeck-equipped Sikorsky S-76D for the second quarter of this year. The company expressed confidence that it will see the full certification of the product in 2009, according to Phil Naybour, vice president and general manager of Helicopter Solutions at Thales.
Thales has built several innovations into the new TopDeck avionics suite, including an Interactive flight management system, which provides flight plan and aircraft performance management. The ease with which an operator can modify a flight plan to take weather or terrain into account becomes quickly apparent when, with a couple of clicks of the cursor control device (CCD), the heading on the digital map changes.
