Russia Creates Its Own TCAS for MC-21 and Superjet: Aircraft Are Prohibited from Flying Without It

Russia has completed the certification of key domestic airborne safety systems. Rosaviatsiya has issued certificates of airworthiness to the Navigator Aviation Instrument Engineering Institute from St. Petersburg.

This concerns a small-sized means of monitoring the air situation and a system for preventing collisions with aircraft. Both systems were developed as part of import substitution programs. They are designed for installation on civilian aircraft and helicopters of Russian production.

The certification covered the full cycle of confirming airworthiness. The program included ground tests, functional checks, and flight tests in real conditions. During the flights, modes of detecting air targets, algorithms for calculating trajectory conflicts, and issuing warning information to the crew were tested.

The collision avoidance system generates recommendations for changing the vertical flight profile and complies with the current certification requirements of civil aviation.

The founder of the flight safety and certification service RunAvia, Andrey Patrakov, explained to"Perviy Technicheskiy" that the key problem of Russian civil aviation is the lack of its own TCAS collision avoidance system. Without it, the aircraftwill not receive permission for commercial flights, regardless of age, model, or degree of localization.

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