In December the 6th flight inspection system AeroFIS® has been delivered to our customer FCS Flight Calibration Services GmbH. The delivery included the installation into one new Beech King Air 350 with Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionic suite.
The Automatic Flight Inspection System (AFIS) is individually customized to the highest extent, in order to comply with the demanding requirements of FCS.
The AFIS integrates the new developed TSO based receiver for flight inspection of GBAS GAST-C and GAST-D.
Besides a full set of dedicated civil and military flight inspection receivers, also the primary aircraft navigation receivers are interfaced and serve as independent data source for comparison.
The position reference is a hybrid multi-constellation phase tracking GNSS solution that includes IRS, Barometric Altitude, GPS, SBAS as well as GLONASS and GALILEO and combinations hereof.
The flight validation features of the AFIS are enhanced by external video cameras for documentation of pilot view, approach and runway lighting systems and obstacles. Obstacles are highlighted online by symbol overlays to the video. The overlays are calculated based on aircraft position, attitude, camera optics and an obstacle database.
A cockpit camera documents the pilot workload as well as indications of the EFIS during the validation of instrument flight procedures.
The video data is recorded together with the flight inspection data for time synchronized replay.
This delivery marks the continuation of the successful cooperation between FCS Flight Calibration Services GmbH and Aerodata for the next decades.
