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AIMMS-20
OPERATING MANUAL
Document-P/N:
AIMMS20-OM
© Aventech Research Inc. 2013. All Rights Reserved.
1 INTRODUCTION
The Aventech Research Inc. AIMMS-20 (Aircraft Integrated Meteorological
Measurement System) is an integrated, turn-key system for measuring accurate,
real-time meteorological data on airborne platforms. The meteorological data set
includes temperature, humidity, three-dimensional winds (speed, direction and
vertical) and turbulence. The data generated by the system is broadcast in real-time
via an RS-232 serial communications link to either a GPS navigation system or data
acquisition system.
This document provides a step by step description on how to setup and calibrate
the AIMMS-20 instrumentation for your aircraft or helicopter airframe. Section 2
provides an overall description of the components of the AIMMS-20 system. Section
3 provides detail on how to perform the initial setup of the system followed by a
description of the flight manoeuvres that must be performed in order to calibrate the
system. In order to set up and calibrate the system, the user will utilize Aventech’s
aimcfg PC-based software utility. A user’s guide for the aimcfg software utility is
provided in Section 4. Technical specifications for the system are provided in
Section 5. If the end user wishes to integrate the AIMMS-20 serial broadcast data
stream into their dedicated data acquisition system, details of the broadcast format
can be found in Appendix A.