Canadian Helicopters Selects Max-Viz EVS

Montreal-based Canadian Helicopters will install a Max-Viz EVS (enhanced vision system) on its aircraft to improve operational safety.

Canadian Helicopters operates numerous types of rotary aircraft throughout Canada on missions that include emergency medical and police services forestry, utility, mining, construction, and filming.

Sylvain Seguin, the company's vice president of safety, said after evaluating the EVS-1000 system for 90 days on a variety of missions, including some in reduced visibility conditions, that he believes the system "will greatly enhance the safety and reliability of our flight operations and the quality of our services to our customers."

The EVS-1000 system uses uncooled, long-wave infrared sensors to gather data of the environment ahead, and then enhances the images, which can be displayed on any video-capable system in the cockpit.  01-05-2006.