Honeywell Aerospace will supply the AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter with its LASEREF VI Inertial Navigation System. The advanced inert...
Honeywell Aerospace will supply the AgustaWestland AW101 helicopter with its LASEREF VI Inertial Navigation System.
The advanced inertial navigation technology makes it easier for helicopter pilots to navigatewith extreme accuracy, even with the loss of GPS satellite guidance, and brings unprecedented new capabilities to the platform including greater precision and efficiency.
The new upgrade is available for future and in-service AW101 helicopters,and will be accessible to operators starting in 2016.
Honeywell’s LASEREF VI will help AW101 operators improve mission capability and flexibility of their fleet, reduce their pilot workload, and ensure that safety is maintained at all times.
AW101 operators flying Honeywell’s LASEREFVI INScan take advantage of new capabilities including a Required Navigation Performance (RNP) of 0.3 nautical miles with 100 percent availability. With this level of precision, operators can fly approaches not previously possible, including when GPS is temporarily interrupted.
It also lays the foundation for them to obtain helicopter operational approval for RNP low-level operations.
Designed to withstand the hot and dusty conditions of rotorcraft operation, the LASEREF VI offers acombined GPS/INSmode and an inertial-only mode. Ituses ring laser gyro technology to provide pilots with incredibly accurate positioning data and maximized safetyeven during extended periods of operation.
The LASEREF VIis small, light and designed to operate with low power draw for improved efficiency.It features Honeywell’s HIGH Step2 inertial-GPS hybrid functionality for improved RNP availability, and has an FAA Technical Standard Order that certifies it to the highest possible civilian standards.
The LASEREF VI is one of a wide range of inertial navigation technologies Honeywell supplies for military and civil fixed wing and rotorcraft, as well as space applications, with more than 100,000 systems fielded to date.
