System Control Overall control of the RT Balancer is through an ergonomically designed hand-held terminal with a touch sensitive membrane over a high-resolution back-lit LCD display. It is robust and easily readable making it ideally suited to the demands of the flight deck or cockpit environment, and is powered from the Data Collection Unit. All data and solutions may be viewed in flight and hard copies obtained from the integral printer. The unit currently supports three user-selectable languages; English French or German. Data Input and Storage Data from up to 8 accelerometers and 4 tachometer channels are integrated in the Data Collection Unit to provide data viewable as polar balance plots and frequency domain vibration signatures. All data is stored to a removable PCMCIA Card which is used for data transfer and subsequent detailed off-line analysis in the RT Vision Ground Support Station.

Data Analysis
The capabilities of the RT Balancer are determined by the Firmware currently installed, a full description of which may be found in the Firmware Data Sheet. In general the system will collect balance data from up to 8 different flight conditions and supply balance solutions according to the operators requirements, a range of vibration signatures up to 1000 Hz and 6400 lines resolution are available with at least one range covering the 1 x P and N x P frequencies. Other ‘windowed’ ranges may be configured to extract and highlight frequencies of special interest for specific aircraft diagnostic requirements.

Firmware Upgrade Options.
The system is designed so that future improvements and upgrades to the overall systems functionality, as well as refinements to aircraft information, may be incorporated through the use of Firmware Upgrade Cards or Aircraft Data Cards supplied on PCMCIA cards.

Customer Support
The team members are experienced aircraft engineers with a wealth of experience in aviation maintenance specialising in Rotor Track & Balancing of dynamic components as well as propeller balancing, and Vibration Analysis. We can be contacted directly by telephone, fax, e-mail or through the website. Helitune promotes a personal service and is happy to create customised configurations to suit special requirements.