Experimental flights | Photography Flights | Aerial Photography

LIFEAIR Make you fly

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LIFEAIR specializes in the field of experimental and photography flights. The company operates a number of aircraft suitable for carrying aerial photography and remote sensor systems. The company employs a skilled air crew on special flights which can fulfill the clients’ demands at the highest professional level. Read More

Managing licensing procedures

LIFEAIR specializes in the field of experimental flights with all relevant aspects of managing licensing procedures and installation of systems:

Characterizing systems,Matching and integration between aircraft and systems,Producing adaptors and structural parts needed for integration,Licensing systems and configurations opposite regulators,Performing installations in aircraft,Coordinating flight activities opposite air monitoring,Preparing navigation and operation aid equipment for the flight crew and operators,Supervising in real-time over the flight performance, whether routine or emergency,Estimating statements of work and expected performance costs

Airworthiness Certificate

Aircraft certification processes for experimental configuration

Engineering adjustments for performing complex installations

Correct characterization and management of the airborne system’s requirements, even at the early stage of its presentation, will enable huge savings in money, time and avoidable errors.

Flying Payloads

LifeAir specializes in managing the stage of system characterization, matching of licensing and installation processes and in the planning the flight and coordinating aerial operation for it.

Fuselage hard points for external payloads

LifeAir specializes in characterizing, designing, manufacturing and certifying of various systems and designated adapters to carry external loads on a pylon.

External installations for remote sensing systems

LifeAir leads, manages and supervises all stages of professional engineering design, including system requirement review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR) before manufacturing, and of course, the installation of the system and the completion of its licensing in the aircraft. All this, according to the client’s required timetables.

Experimental Flights Project Management

Managing the logistical aspect of the installation and every step of the air operations for flying the system-installed aircraft according to the flight profile requested for its results.

Ground operations services

he company’s operations department is available 24 hours a day, and supports the company’s clients and daily activity at every stage.

Flight Testing

LifeAir specializes in the field of flight testing for the purposes of flying airborne remote sensor systems, target and calibration flights and various mapping flights.

Airborne platforms for R&D and commercial systems

Needs and Customers in the Field of Airborne System

External installations

Installation configurations in experimental flights

Aircraft Modification

Each aircraft has characterizations that distinguish it from other aircraft

Underbelly Camera Hatch

LIFEAIR operates a number of aircraft with camera hatches certified for different installations.

Calibration and target flight

LifeAir will make sure the right aircraft with the right equipment will be matched to each client’s request in order for the activity to be performed at the highest level

Flight dispatching

LifeAir takes care of all of the needed coordination to enable the desired flight route to take place optimally

Piper Cheyenne 3

The company owns a Piper Cheyenne 3 air-compressed plane for flight at up to 30,000 feet.

The plane has hard points installed in the front part of its underbelly, on which different systems can be quickly installed. These hard points are directly connected to the plane’s beams, and allow for extra-heavy weight hauling according to clients’ needs. It is also possible to install operating racks inside the plane’s cabin which is extra spacious and large.

Piper Aztec

The company owns and operates three Piper Aztec planes with a licensed photography hatch in their underbelly for installing remote sensor and mapping systems that sit in the plane’s cabin. This type of aerial photography plane can fly up to an altitude of 15,000 feet, and can stay airborne for up to six hours.

The Piper Aztec is a very popular aerial photography plane for its stability, relative power that stems from having two engines, its low operating costs and its ability to fold its wheels after takeoff, and by this – clear the visual field of a photography system. All of these make the Piper Aztec the ideal aerial photography plane for clients who wish to fly with maximum efficiency.

Each of the planes is installed with an electricity panel with an output of over 60 amps, and which is suitable for most systems available in the market with no need of additional power sources.

Other Aircraft

LifeAir can characterize, coordinate and operate many other aircraft according to the client’s requirements, such as:Bell 206 Jet Ranger and Long Ranger, Augusta, Robinson and Sikorsky.

jet planes: Citation3 and Hawker 800

one-engine planes: Cessna 172, 182 and 208.

LIFEAIR’s photography flights

LIFEAIR specializes in the field of target and calibration flights, and owns flight recording equipment and ground-air communication to provide its clients with comprehensive flight solutions. To clients who wish to perform aerial photography flights with various systems, the company offers a full package of services that includes the company’s aerial photography planes, an air crew highly-skilled in flying accurate flight lines, an experienced air and ground operations department which manages the entire activity, flight navigation and mapping aids to raise the quality of the work on the plane and continuous ground-air communication to support and accompany all stages of the flight to its successful conclusion. The company provides the perfect package for aerial photography flights, experimental flight, target flights, ambulance flights, passenger flights and more.Read more