CSIO develops indigenous avionics test rigs for IAF

Chandigarh : All fighter squadrons of the Indian Air Force as well as the Navy will have indigenous test rigs for the calibration and post-flight analytics of head-up display (HUD) units installed in the cockpit of combat aircraft.
This will reduce the costs significantly and save the time involved in getting the same work done from foreign vendors.
The technology for the test rig, christened Military Aviation Head-Up Display Test Platform (MAHTP), has been developed by the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) here.
It was transferred today to defence public sector undertaking Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for its commercial production at its Panchkula unit.
The system has been certified by the DRDO’s Regional Centre for Military Airworthiness, Chandigarh, and will also be installed at repair and overhaul depots as well as aircraft manufacturing centres.
The comprehensive aviation test platform provides visual inspection, system health monitoring, automated testing, fault debugging and repair and maintenance besides calibration and semi-automated evaluation of optical parameters like parallax error, binocular disparity, photometric characteristics, field of view and camera focus.