Our Clients

Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS)
CMC Electronics - an Esterline Company - has developed a flexible approach to EVS that offers airlines, regionals, corporate and helicopter operators a wide variety of sensor and display choices to satisfy varying operator EVS requirements, performance needs and budgets. CMC’s EVS has been selected for Bombardier and Dassault business jet applications. IR-based EVS has also been demonstrated as a cost-effective solution to current large helicopter “brown-out” scenarios.

Electronic Flight Bag (EFB)
The CMA-1100 PilotView™ EFB from CMC was designed to suit commercial, corporate and helicopter “paperless cockpit” needs. PilotView incorporates a Jeppesen database, aircraft performance calculations including weight & balance, weather and aeronautical data. It is video compatible and can accommodate crew communications such as email, fax and internet/intranet services. Over 300 CMC first generation EFBs are in service and the latest CMA-1100 has been selected by a significant number of regional and business jet OEMs for factory installation.

CMC also manufactures FMS, GPS-WAAS, SATCOM antennas and is a cockpit systems integrator.

Website: www.cmcelectronics.ca

New BAE SYSTEMS Digital Q-HUD for Air Transport
The all new Head-Up Display (Q-HUD) system from BAE SYSTEMS in the UK represents a giant leap forward in the development of Air Transport HUDs. The Q-HUD uses optical wave guide technology to avoid the need for expensive, complex, bulky and intrusive overhead projection systems and can be designed to fit a wide variety of aircraft with the same unit. For example, BAE has developed a single Q-HUD for all Boeing aircraft models including the B747. This system will allow fitment of HUD to medium and small business jets, helicopters and possibly even VLJs where there is insufficient overhead area for conventional optics packages. The new Q-HUD is fully compatible with Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) and infrared-based Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS) which can provide lower landing minima as well as safety benefits to help prevent CFIT and provide early detection of runway incursions in darkness and poor visibility. Q-HUD represents a cost-effective, reliable and novel new approach to HUD.

Website: www.baesystems.com

afirs™ UpTime™  Solution
FLYHT, based in Calgary, Canada is focused on providing value added solutions to address the business requirements of the aviation industry.  FLYHT’s solutions encompass tools to improve flight safety, communications, compliance, operations, profit and efficiency. 

afirs UpTime is a satellite-based Automated Flight Information Reporting System (afirs) that allows aircraft operators to monitor and manage aircraft operations anywhere, anytime, in real-time.  afirs UpTime gathers, stores, and transmits data, and delivers information to customers via the Iridium satellites.

The system provides:
Out, off, on, in (OOOI) Tracking
Flight Following
Engine/Systems Trends
Engine/Airframe Exceedances and anomalies
WorldwideVoice/Text Communications

Website: www.flyht.com

Un-Powered Airport/Heliport Lighting System (UALS)
RelekTek, the US distributor for RBI Inc. which uses a highly (95%) reflective material to simulate a powered airport or heliport lighting system to improve viewability from the air. UALS is plainly visible in clear air from a distance of two to four nautical miles. Pilots can clearly see the UALS reflected in the aircraft’s landing lights. Angled markers can even simulate a VASI. Markers can be altered to suit the higher approach angles of helicopter operations at oil rigs or heliports and colored material can be used for taxiway and/or other identification markers etc. The markers are built of aluminum and are anchored to the ground by frangible couplings in the event of off-runway incidents. The mounting scheme allows the markers to withstand 100 mph winds yet still collapse in a collision with a vehicle.

UALS is ideally suited to the temporary landing requirements of military and helicopter EMS/police operators sometimes called upon to land in remote areas where projected lifetime of the site is short. Pilots claim that UALS provides a view equal to a normal heliport powered lighting array. Numerous systems in use from Canada’s north to Florida have endured temperature extremes with no degradation to the material.

Website: www.rbi-inc.com

Speech Recognition Technology
The unique user interface technology developed by Conversay allows flight/mission crews to interact with aircraft control or mission software through spoken commands. It can be integrated into existing systems to input cockpit data, manage databases, set configuration changes – all hands-free to improve productivity, eliminate paperwork or keyboards, and speed-up data entry. Conversay's speech engine CASSI requires no training to recognize speech and needs no separate speech server. CASSI has achieved up to 99% accuracies and has been demonstrated to work exceptionally well in high ambient noise environments and with widely variable voice accents.

Website: www.conversay.com

Engineering and Certification Services
TASS Inc. is a world-recognized aerospace engineering consulting firm based near Seattle, Washington, with offices in Bristol, UK and Melbourne, Australia. The company has been servicing the Boeing Aircraft Company and other aviation OEMs, MROs, airlines and operators since 1997 specializing in developing and approving major commercial aircraft modifications, structural repair schemes, design and installation of avionics systems, interiors, and managing conversion projects. The company has deep roots and maintains expertise in damage tolerance evaluation and certification of metal as well as composite structures.

TASS offers significant expertise in the latest computational tools and techniques for the development, engineering and certification of commercial aircraft repairs, modifications and the installation of systems, avionics and components. Company capabilities allow customers to consolidate resources and reduce overhead providing a unique competitive advantage in the industry. With its worldwide support system, TASS provides customers with on-site assistance and immediate response to scheduled as well as emergency needs. Other services include interim production conformity inspections of new aircraft at Boeing’s facilities for airline customers.

Website: www.tassinc.com

Sensor Fusion & EVS Emulator
Aireyes expertise is centered on the real-time fusion of sensor imaging streams such as those generated by infrared, millimeter wave radar, visible and low light-level TV as well as Synthetic Vision System (SVS) inputs. Image and fusion processors developed by Aireyes have been installed on a wide variety of aircraft and helicopters from Cessna Skymasters to Boeing B757s and C-130 military platforms.

The company has also developed the Aireyes SIM-100, a single LRU sensor output emulator that has proven to be invaluable for EVS-required full flight simulators. The SIM-100 can be used to:

• train flight crews on sensor phenomenology, appearance and interpretation
• emulate the presentation of EVS on Head-Up and/or Head-Down Displays
• familiarize operators with various sensor types and expected imagery
• develop marketing demonstrations for customers or for industry trade shows
• model typical imagery from degraded visibility/weather conditions
• conduct human factor trade off studies etc

Website: www.Aireyes.com

Predictive Windshear System (PWS).
Swan International Pty. of Sydney, Australia has developed an eye-safe LIDAR-based Predictive Windshear System (PWS) for the aerospace industry. The Swan PWS is a patented on-board detection and alerting system for fixed and rotary wing aircraft. The company works with Regional, Business Jet and General Aviation OEMs and operators to contour the product to suit various aircraft types to improve operational safety. Some aircraft are currently equipped with reactive windshear detection systems which provide the pilot with a warning only after the aircraft has entered a hazardous windshear event. The patented Swan system uses laser-based reflective energy to measure conditions ahead of the aircraft and predicts the presence of a hazardous windshear threat in the intended flight path some 10 – 20 seconds before the encounter. This unique approach incorporates a hybrid laser system operating in the eye-safe 1.5-1.8 micron wavelength and utilizes a range of novel fiber optic and solid state components. The system uses GPS for ground speed and spatial determination and includes a fiber optic demodulator to detect the Doppler shift associated with the changing wind gradient.

Website: www.SwanInter.com

Integrated Nosewheel Motor System
WheelTug® is a revolutionary new concept in aircraft ground operations. This patented electric drive system incorporates high performance electric motors integrated into the nose wheels of aircraft, providing full mobility without the use of the aircraft main engines or airport tugs for pushback and taxi operations. The resulting improvements in efficiency, flexibility, fuel savings, CO2 emissions, brake wear and maintenance result in savings projected to be in the millions of dollars per aircraft per year.

Delta Air Lines Technical Operations Center in Atlanta, GA has recently joined the team as a partner capable of certification, installation and maintenance of WheelTugs on customer aircraft. Delta also has rights to become launch customer for WheelTug and may install the first 81 systems on Boeing B737NG aircraft followed by other aircraft types.

WheelTug is exploring potential business opportunities with the world’s air carriers, regionals, operators and aerospace OEMs. Other applications include corporate jets, military transports, naval and utility aircraft.

Website: www.WheelTug.com

Lightweight Aircraft Cabin and Galley Accessories
Norduyn Aviation of Montreal, Canada has developed a unique family of lightweight galley inserts and specialized cabin equipment for the aerospace marketplace. The company, a member of Norduyn Inc. is an aviation engineering and manufacturing company specializing in cabin products for the ever-changing commercial airline and corporate aviation passenger environment. The company works with OEMs and major airlines and regionals to create cabin accessories that promise to improve airline economics and enhance passenger satisfaction. The company currently serves over 100 airlines in more than 50 countries around the world and provides cabin and galley accessories to Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer as well as global airlines such as Lufthansa, Air Canada, Delta, United, Continental, Austrian and China Southern.

Norduyn is also developing "Smart Cart" the next generation of cabin technology that will improve aesthetics and operations in future aircraft.

Website: www.Norduyn.com