13 June Tracking Report - A Learning Opportunity Near You – World Demo Tour

ASOG 2019 Focus Areas: Professional Development, Trending Technologies

As promised, ASOG is going to track Viking Air’s Special Mission Guardian 400 Twin Otter (C-GVKI) world tour for members and future ASOs to tour an aerial remote sensing platform, i.e., learn what makes a multi-mission aircraft (flight crew to the mission equipment).

Currently, C-GVKI is in Wiener Neustadt at Airborne Technologies preparing for the Paris Airshow and the start of the world tour. Since I live near Wiener Neustadt, my son and I took the opportunity to checkout the bird in person. The folks at Airborne Technologies were super helpful in allowing us to climb-around C-GVKI…Danke Schon Katrin Gruber (ASOG member). Overall, the bird looks great. My son loved the paint design. He said it looked like something out of Minecraft. If you’re interested in knowing what systems are integrated onboard C-GVKI, here’s an overview:

• Aircraft: Viking Air (Twin Otter Guardian 400 series)
• Design System Architecture: Airborne Technologies (Airborne Linx)
• EO/IR Turret: Hensoldt (Argos II HD)
• Radar: Leonardo (Osprey 30)
• Camera Vision: Sentient (ViDAR)
• Moving Target Indication: Kestrel (MTI)
• S.C.A.R – Pods: Airborne Technologies
• Pylons: Alkan
• Tactical Workstation: Airborne Technologies
• Mission Computer: Galleon
• Augmented Reality System: CarteNav
• Downlink System: ECS
• AIS: CNS Systems
• Training & Simulation Equipment: Aero Simulators
• Mission Seat: Ikhana

According to Katrin and the C-GVKI aircrew, they plan to fly to Paris this Friday (tomorrow). So, if you’re planning to attend the Paris Airshow next week, checkout C-GVKI at the Viking Air Static Display B4. Regarding the rest of the world tour, Peter Walker (ASOG Member and lead Viking Air Tour Planner) will start publishing the schedule next week. Again, from an ASOG perspective, this is a great professional development opportunity for all ASOs (commercial, public safety & defense) and for young STEM students and teachers.

More too follow!

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    1. Hi Richard, are you going to be plane side at the show. I’m flying in Tuesday
  • I am very happy to be involved with this aircraft and the upcoming tour. It will be great to see it in Paris next week. With Sentient's ViDAR system onboard it will certainly show the Search & Rescue world that there is a new, proven sensor out there that will massively increase the effective search swath and have a greater than 90% probability of detection.

    I look forward to the tour starting!

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