Icing Severity Detection System
Product Code: ISDS
Extend flying time in unpredictable weather conditions without risking safety or costly maintenance with the Curtiss-Wright Controls Integrated Sensing (CWCIS) Icing Severity Detection System (ISDS).
Ice shedding often causes damaging asymmetric loads on helicopter transmissions and airframes. The result is costly drive and rotor blade overhaul, airframe fatigue checks, cockpit instrumentation damage and lots of ground time!
Curtiss-Wright Controls Integrated Sensing (CWCIS) flying experience now enables operators to extend their operational capability in mixed and unpredictable weather conditions without risk to safety or costly maintenance. Reliable prediction of unacceptable icing enables the pilot to use the whole operational flight envelope safely and confidently.
Key Features
- Reduces complete transmission overhaul in the event of over-stress due to asymmetric ice shedding.
- Reduces airframe fatigue checks/inspections following ice induced vibration.
- Reduces rotor blade damage due to impact with ice (shed from blades).
- Reduces damaged cockpit instruments due to excessive vibration.
- Reduces costly grounding of aircraft during unpredictable and bad weather conditions.
- Reduces airframe stress caused by high vibration conditions.
- Reduces aircrew fatigue from high vibration conditions.
- Reduces aircraft maintenance requirements.
- Improved Flight Safety in Icing Conditions.
- Continuously measures ice build-up from liquid water.
- ISDS Categorises and indicates the severity of icing and snow.
- Designed primarily for helicopters, ISDS operates during helicopter hover.
Uses aircraft integral, self-induced air flow.
Specification
See related document (pdf) for full details. Contact our CWCIS, Christchurch, UK Avionics Sales Team about your development program or requirements.
