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DART Aerospace improves PA100 Rotorcraft Flight Manual Supplement

DART Aerospace Press Release | July 19, 2018

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DART Aerospace is presenting an improvement to the Rotorcraft Flight Manual Supplement (RFMS) for its PA100 PUREair engine protection system for Airbus Helicopters H125/AS350 and H130/EC130.

This improved performance is available to all new deliveries as well as DART customers on all six continents who are already operating this system. DART Aerospace Photo

In order to unlock some additional power, DART and PALL Aerospace Corp. agreed to support a new flight test program, where additional data was gathered, allowing them to reduce RFMS restrictions on a PA100 equipped aircraft.

The previous RFMS applied an 85 kilogram penalty when calculating hover performance, regardless of whether the aircraft could pass the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) engine health check with the PA100 installed.

Following this new battery of tests, this penalty was removed completely in cases where an aircraft could pass the OEM health check with the PA100 installed.

For operators of the AS350B3e with Arriel 2D engines, the VEMD can be configured so that there is no performance penalty with the PA100 installed … ever.

For operators of AS350 B3 (and earlier) aircraft and EC130 B4/T2 aircraft that do not pass the OEM health check with the PA100 installed, penalties have been reduced to 52 kilograms (HIGE) and 58 kilograms (HOGE).

This improved performance is available to all new deliveries as well as DART customers on all six continents who are already operating this system.

 

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