Brazil’s ANAC Grants Additional STC for ALERTS System

Appareo Systems, LLC is pleased to announce that it has received an additional Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the ALERTS Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) system. Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC), Brazil’s national civil aviation agency has issued the STC for the Eurocopter AS350 and has granted earlier STC’s for Bell 206 and 407 aircraft. ALERTS has previously been granted STCs for the same aircraft types in the United States and Canada. ANAC has validated FAA STC SR02686CH and issued their own STC 2009S08-01 against it. ALERTS – Aircraft Logging and Event Recording for Training and Safety – is a comprehensive FOQA and Flight Data Management (FDM) system designed for light and legacy aircraft where more traditional flight data recorders are too large and costly to be viable choices. As a comprehensive system, ALERTS makes an effective FOQA/FDM program available to operators of any size. The STC is a document that is granted by ANAC when the applicant has received approval to modify an aircraft from its original design. “Appareo Systems is pleased that the ANAC has issued this STC for the ALERTS system,” said Ben Wright, Appareo Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “With this certificate, Brazilian operators of the popular AS350 will be able to enjoy the same safety and training benefits that the ALERTS system has shown in other light helicopters around the world.” Via: www.rotor.com

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