26 January 2016
Helicopter HUMS Maintenance Credit: New Initiatives
Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) were first introduced 25 years ago as a safety enhancement for offshore helicopters in the UK and Norway. Even in the early days of HUMS the prize of ‘maintenance credits’ was envisaged: i.e. using the HUMS data to reduce invasive physical inspections and disassembly (with the inherent risks of maintenance error) and to tailor maintenance around the actual usage of an individual helicopter.
