CMC Electronics Enhanced Vision System Sensor

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(2007), "CMC Electronics Enhanced Vision System Sensor", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 79 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2007.12779dab.019

CMC Electronics Enhanced Vision System Sensor

CMC Electronics Enhanced Vision System Sensor

Edwards & Associates, a subsidiary of Bell Helicopter, has installed the CMC Electronics SureSight M-Series Enhanced Vision System (EVS) sensor on an Agusta Westland AW-139 helicopter for a corporate customer.

Dwayne Starnes, Director, Marketing and Sales at Edwards & Associates, said: “We are very excited about this new CMC product. Our customers should find the M-Series EVS sensor to be a very effective aid in improving flight safety and enhancing flight crew situational awareness.”

Cathy Bain, CMC Vice-President Marketing and Sales, added: “The SureSight M-Series EVS sensor is a cost-effective, infrared-based safety tool for helicopter crews flying in darkness, smoke, smog or other poor visibility conditions. EVS offers supplemental terrain awareness in these types of scenarios to help prevent pilot disorientation when there is no peripheral scene information available. EVS provides the pilot with excellent infrared imaging of the area in the forward flight path of the helicopter to provide early detection and avoidance of obstacles such as towers, trees, vehicles and buildings.”

CMC's ultra compact, low-cost M- Series EVS sensor improves situational awareness by providing pilots with a daytime-like image at night and in low- visibility situations for commercial, business/corporate and paramilitary operations. The M-Series sensor weighs 2.2Ib and measures 2.4£2.5£6in. in length. A notable feature is the M-Series' single Line Replaceable Unit that can be easily installed in the tail fin or nose of an aircraft or on a helicopter fuselage or strut.