Helicopter technical support

Technical assistance

When reactivity and flexibility are essential, Airbus Helicopters delivers the best solutions to customers in real time through on-site assistance – including the dispatching of technical representatives to customer locations.

During the first months of a new rotorcraft’s operation and/or for any recurrent assistance required by customers, Airbus’ technical representatives assist customer teams in performing:

●     Maintenance: Customers can be supported by the rental of tools and ground support equipment (GSE) to reduce the maintenance burden through a cost-effective service;

●     Troubleshooting and fine-tuning of technicians’ work, avionics, structures, equipment, and hydraulics: this is optimised by digital and communication tools such as with video assistance to save time and improve efficiency

●     On-the-job training

●     Consulting

●     Advanced logistics services

Airbus’ technical team is qualified to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s Part 66 standards for certifying the release to service of work performed on aircraft. Additionally, team members have a minimum of seven years’ experience in helicopter maintenance to efficiently address customer needs.

24/7 technical expertise

Airbus’ experts are ready 24/7 with four worldwide technical support hubs specialised in all Airbus Helicopters products.

Customers requiring urgent technical support can reach a technical expert by calling an Airbus Helicopters customer service centre. Technical events are submitted through the Technical Request service available on the AirbusWorld collaborative platform or mobile device.

All queries or issues raised by customers are analysed, and a technical solution is provided with input from the design office, when appropriate.

Experts are qualified to respond quickly to any complex technical questions, while ensuring customers’ safety and aircraft-on-ground (AOG) needs.

Visit AirbusWorld

Customers need immediate access to operational and maintenance directives to keep their rotorcraft flying and to support flight safety. All the latest directives – such as alert service bulletins (ASB), service bulletins (SB), and safety information notices (SIN) – are published in real time on Airbus Helicopters’ Technical Information Publication on Internet (T.I.P.I.) portal

The T.I.P.I. app also is available for download on the App Store and Google Play.

Register for this service by following the link below, then clicking "inscription" on the subsequent page.

For more information, visit the T.I.P.I website.

Continuing airworthiness management services

Airbus’ continuing airworthiness management (CAM) services provide highly effective safety and airworthiness management for helicopters operating worldwide.

Through this offering, Airbus monitors all configuration and airworthiness aspects of a customer’s rotorcraft – enabling the customer to direct their focus on operations. Among the key benefits of these services are increased fleet availability, optimised maintenance operations, and secured aircraft value.

CAM services are developed under worldwide aeronautics safety standards, are applicable to any aircraft, and are accessible to all customers – be they civil or military operators or financial institutions. They support fleet enrolment either from “as built/delivered” up to “as maintained” configurations.

Airbus Helicopters proposes three services related to Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO):

• CAM Execution - fully delegated: This service ensures customers the associated level of legal responsibility and global airworthiness. Airbus Helicopters guarantees that maintenance operations are performed properly and on-time to make sure your flights are performed under the safest conditions.
• CAM Execution - partially delegated: Airbus Helicopters shares with the customer the associated level of legal responsibility and ensures partial airworthiness monitoring, using the customer’s or Airbus Helicopters’ Maintenance Information System (MIS) tool.
• CAM Implementation, Consulting and Training: A comprehensive package to help customers establish a detailed status of the current situation, perform a gap analysis and to accompany the framing of a new organisation with different solutions.

FlyScan

Experts in Airbus Helicopters’ HUMS (Health and Usage Monitoring System) provide proactive and predictive analysis of monitored rotorcraft’s parameters, supporting any mission profile or organisation type.

FlyScan services contribute to maximising customers’ operational efficiency, increasing both fleet availability and flight safety, while reducing the maintenance burden. Our HUMS experts provide early recommendations with a high level of confidence to help reduce AOGs and avoid technical flights / warnings.

FlyScan monitors multiple sources of Aircraft data collected through a secured cloud:

• Vibrations: dynamic components health monitoring
• Usage: flight limitations, cycles and various counters monitoring
• Flight parameters: flight data recording
• Avionics codes: flight failure surveillance

All data is processed by technical experts with the Airbus design office in order to anticipate any maintenance needs, or to detect in advance any symptoms that could cause an unexpected grounding.

FlyScan proposes three services:

• Advise: A tailored service to support a helicopter customer's HUMS monitoring. Airbus Helicopters provides proactive weekly feedback through review of main components.
• Supervise: This service is tailored for helicopter customers without a vibration analysis team in their organisation. Airbus manages the various thresholds and closely monitors any event that occurs in the fleet. A simple and regular data transfer is all that is needed for Airbus to perform a thorough analysis of a customer’s aircraft records.
• Guard: A service adapted to helicopter operators who already manage a HUMS system. Airbus brings its expertise to their doorstep, supporting teams to survey their fleets. This package includes a HUMS hotline available 24/7, and commits to responding to AOG requests within a few hours.