• Eurocopter 135 Specifications

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Nemeth Designs Eurocopter EC-135 for MS Flight Simulator X

Eurocopter's EC 135 is a very powerful lightweight twin-engine multipurpose helicopter and is operational worldwide. Over 600 have been delivered since the helicopter entered service in 1996 and the helicopter is flown by over 100 customers in 27 countries.

The helicopter incorporates Eurocopter's low-noise patented Fenestron tail rotor. The array of ten blades in the Fenestron are arranged asymmetrically and are spaced at different intervals which substantially reduces the helicopter noise.

The standard version carries the pilot and six or seven passengers. The VIP / executive version is fitted for four or five VIP passengers. The cabin is fitted with large sliding doors for easy boarding and exit. The Emergency Medical Service helicopter can be flown by one or two pilots. The helicopter can carry one or two stretcher patients and up to three doctors and medical attendants. Different medical installations are tailored to the operating organisation's need.

Eurocopter offers a choice of two engine types for the EC 135, both types equipped with Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC). The FADEC system provides enhanced performance, engine protection and power plant monitoring. The engines available are the Turbomeca Arrius 2B (T) and the Pratt and Whitney Canada PW206B (P).

Nemeth Designs EC-135 package includes three variants:

• Emergency Medical Service (T1)
• Passenger Transport (P1)
• VIP (T1)

Some of the features:

• Accurate and detailed interior and exterior visual models and textures.
• Custom exterior and interior animations
• Fully clickable dynamic virtual cockpit. Perfectly flyable from the VC.
• Realistic flight dynamics
• Three different panel configurations (CDS/analog; CPDS/FCDS; CPDS/analog)
• Two liveries for all variants
• PDF manual and Paintkit

This addon works only under Flight Simulator X.

The twin-engined Eurocopter EC135 T2 that crashed into a Glasgow pub comes from a design that first entered service in 1996. More than 1,000 have been built at the Eurocopter plant in Germany.

They are used widely by police and ambulance services and for executive transport.

Eurocopter 135 Specifications

According to Eurocopter, a subsidiary of the European defence giant EADS, the EC135 is a 'light, multipurpose twin-engine helicopter with an advanced design and state-of-the-art technology. The EC135 is the reference helicopter for EMS (emergency maritime services) and public services, thanks to its performance, cabin flexibility and capabilities. The EC135 is also a trendsetter in the business aviation market thanks to its comfort, versatility and exclusive Hermes design.'

The aircraft costs around £2.3m and can carry up to seven passengers. It has a cruising speed of up to 158mph (254kph).

It is estimated that the EC135 is currently providing about 25% of the world's emergency medic services flights. The T2 is a replacement for the T1 and went into production in August 2002.

It is generally reckoned that helicopter accidents are usually caused by three things – operational error, mechanical malfunction and electrical malfunction.

In September 2007 a Eurocopter EC135 T2 crashed east of North Weald airfield in Essex. Although the pilot and his wife were unhurt, the aircraft was badly damaged. An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report into the incident said there had been a disengagement of the autotrim – the device used to maintain the aircraft's position.

This, and a thud from the engine area, led the pilot to think he had suffered a total engine failure. He positioned the helicopter for a power-off landing in a suitable field but part of the tail of the aircraft hit the ground and the aircraft rolled on to its side.

The AAIB recommended that Eurocopter review the stability augmentation system (SAS) switch system on EC135 helicopters 'to reduce the likelihood of inadvertent de-activation of the SAS'.

The report noted: 'The investigation could not identify the reason why the autotrim disengaged or the cause of the dull thud which the pilot heard at the start of the accident sequence.'

In East Ayrshire in February 2002, a Eurocopter EC135 T1, which was supporting a police operation, was destroyed in a crash, although the pilot and the two police officers on board survived their injuries. The pilot had encountered snow showers and cloud.

The AAIB report into the crash concluded: 'No defects were found with the helicopter or any of its systems, which could account for the behaviour of the helicopter and the loss of control.'

The AAIB recommended that the Civil Aviation Authority should require that police Air Operators Certificate holders review the safety benefits provided by the use of helmet-mounted night vision goggles 'with a view to the introduction of NVGs for helicopter operations conducted at night in support of the police in areas of limited cultural lighting, particularly in hilly or mountainous regions'.

The AAIB also recommended the CAA should review the Police Air Operations Manual to ensure that training in the use of autopilot systems was provided by the operator 'during initial and recurrent line training and the PAOM Part II contains instructions for the use of autopilot systems by pilots during normal operations'.

Experts said it could be some time before the exact cause of the Glasgow accident is known and the AAIB is able to publish a full report.

The investigation team, which is based at Farnborough in Hampshire, will talk to witnesses, which could give them an idea of what happened to the helicopter in its final moments.

Witnesses have already said the rotorblades appeared to have stopped turning before the aircraft came down.

Gordon Smart, editor of the Sun's Scottish edition, saw the crash from a multi-storey car park about 250 metres away. Honda elysion english manual.

He told Sky News: 'I was in a car park and looked up and saw a helicopter which I think was a police helicopter. It was just such a surreal moment. It looked like it was dropping from a great height at a great speed. I'm about 80% sure that it was a police helicopter. There was no fireball and I did not hear an explosion. It fell like a stone. The engine seemed to be spluttering.'

The AAIB will want to study any flight-data recording equipment on the aircraft.

In August 2013, when a helicopter crashed into the North Sea killing four people, the AAIB was able to recover the combined voice and flight data recorder. This gave investigators details of the entire flight and of a number of hours of operation before the flight. They were able to listen to commands given by the captain and the co-pilot as well as radio transmissions and passenger announcements.

In the pub crash the AAIB will want to make known any safety-critical findings as soon as possible, as they would have a bearing on the operation of similar aircraft.

In the North Sea helicopter crash of April 2009, for example, the AAIB was able to establish quickly that the accident which killed all 16 people on board was mainly caused by gearbox failure.

Although the crash in Glasgow is unusual, Scotland has grown accustomed to helicopters coming down in the North Sea.

The latest was on 23 August this year when an AS332L2 Super Puma crashed into the sea about 1.5 miles north-west of Sumburgh airport in the Shetland Islands. Four of the 16 passengers and two crew on board were killed.

The helicopter was a similar to one operated by Bond Offshore Helicopters that crashed a few miles off Peterhead in Scotland in April 2009. It had been returning from a BP platform in the Miller oilfield and all 16 people on board were killed. Investigators concluded the main cause of the accident was the catastrophic failure of the main rotor gearbox.

Another Bond-operated flight, involving a Eurocopter EC225LP helicopter, had crashed into the North Sea a few weeks earlier in February 2009. On that occasion, all 18 on board escaped and were rescued.

There were two serious incidents in 2012. In May 2012 emergency services rescued 14 oil workers and crew from a Bond-operated Super Puma EC225 helicopter that ditched in the North Sea about 25 miles off Aberdeen. Then in October 2012 all 19 men on board a Super Puma EC225 were rescued when it ditched about 32 miles off the coast of Shetland. The aircraft had been taking workers from Aberdeen to the West Phoenix drilling rig 86 miles out to sea.

The most serious North Sea accident was in 1986, when 45 people died in a Chinook helicopter crash near Sumburgh airport on a flight carrying oil workers from Shell platforms in the Brent fields.