Avionics
CHC S-92 Conducts First LPV Approach in Norway
Helicopter is equipped with dual Universal Avionics UNS-1Espw SBAS-FMSs and uses four-axis coupled modes in the pseudo-ILS mode down to circling minimums.
A CHC Helikopter Service Sikorsky S-92 equipped with dual Universal Avionics UNS-1Espw SBAS-flight management systems recently performed the first localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) approach to Runway 07 in Florø, Norway. (Photo: Universal Avionics)
A CHC Helikopter Service Sikorsky S-92 equipped with dual Universal Avionics UNS-1Espw SBAS-flight management systems recently performed the first localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) approach to Runway 07 in Florø, Norway. (Photo: Universal Avionics)

A CHC Helikopter Service Sikorsky S-92 equipped with dual Universal Avionics SBAS-flight management systems recently performed the first localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) approach to Runway 07 in Florø, Norway. The helicopter, LN-OQM, was piloted by John Olav Ofstad and Morten Kufaas on a transit flight from Bergen to Florø, which—in support of the offshore oil and gas industry—is the first Norwegian airport to be equipped with LPV.