Avionics
Cool City Building Low-cost Helicopter Autopilots
Jim Irwin has launched a new company that is targeting the light helicopter autopilot market.

Jim Irwin has launched a new company that is targeting the light helicopter autopilot market. Irwin is a veteran of helicopter and fixed-wing autopilot development and he sees an opportunity that hasn’t been fully tapped.

Cool City’s business plan calls for certifying a line of automatic flight control products that will be small, lightweight, inexpensive and easy to install, with prices and ease of certification that should enable the system to find a home in light helicopters, where cost and complexity currently exclude their use. Irwin is taking a modular approach to certifying light helicopter stability augmentation and autopilot systems. The goal is to maintain component commonality and use proven automatic flight control design concepts while employing current technology.