In the article the peculiarities landing a helicopter on a snowy (dusty) area and analysis the security when boarding an aircraft of the helicopter type on unprepared ground. Conditions insufficient visibility when landing in this way are one of the key problems. Since when landing on snow-covered or dry ground because the air jet from the rotor of the helicopter rises solid suspension, which critically reduces the horizontal and vertical visibility and can lead to an incorrect assessment by the crew the spatial position of the helicopter relative to the ground, in addition, unnoticed can remain obstacles in the landing zone (large stones, movable and stationary objects). In addition, when there is insufficient light or adverse weather conditions in the landing zone can be buildings, structures, masts power lines, trees, bushes, etc. Security analysis showed that the aircraft landing helicopters on unprepared ground is a serious problem. The solutions in the field synthetic vision technologies, for the safe landing of the helicopter, which allow to form a three-dimensional image the landing zone through a snow or dusty vortex, lidar (laser location), W-band radars and other developments, are outlined. The materials the article are practical value to specialists dealing with the issues of helicopter landing in remote forest, mountainous areas, the Arctic zone, etc.
Incorporating terrain roughness into helicopter landing zone site selection by using the Geomorphic Oscillation Assessment Tool (GOAT) v1.0