Helicopter Support and Capability Sustainment

  Wednesday 10 - Thursday 11 June 2009
  No.4 Hamilton Place, London UK


Helicopters are, by their nature, complex machines which require significant support effort in service. Operational concepts are evolving towards more remote and self sufficient operations with small, or single, numbers of helicopters and crews, where support infrastructure & facilities are limited. Operationally, it remains essential to maximise agility and responsiveness to deliver capability. These factors lead to considerable challenges for all stakeholders to achieve satisfactory levels of airworthiness, operational availability and safety.

The stakeholder community encompasses helicopter providers (including airframe and avionic system designers & manufacturers); service providers including operators, flight & mission crews, and maintainers; and providers of support systems such as the engineering and training support environments. A critical issue for current and future operations is sustainment of the maintainer and field support staff skill base.

Furthermore, the service life expectancy of helicopters is increasing; this is especially true in the military where airframe lives of over 50 years are predicted. Conversely, advances in system technology, often driven from outside the aviation community, are resulting in rapid obsolescence of avionics and other on-board operating systems. These factors, together with changing and more onerous operational demands, particularly in military operations, drive the need for a strategy for long term sustainability of the aircraft, together with flexibility in system design to permit affordable upgrading of both hardware and software.

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