Alexey Vladimirovich Alferov
General Director
The Scientific Industrial Enterprise Topaz JSC was founded in 1991. The establishment of the company coincided with the formation of new approaches to the operation of aviation equipment and a new concept of flight safety.
In the 90s, the company developed and put into mass production one of the first personal computer-based flight information processing devices in Russia. The Topaz flight information processing complex has successfully passed state tests.
Equipage of using organizations with systems "Topaz-M" has made it possible to considerably decrease costs of delivery, repair and maintenance of ground-based data processing units, as well as costs of training of flying and maintenance personnel.
Flight data processing by means of system "Topaz-M" provides for solution of the following tasks:
- Analysis of technical condition of aircraft systems and units in flight performed.
- Analysis of completeness, sequence and quality of the flight task accomplished by the pilot (flight crew) with indication of events of violation of flight performance limitations.
- Control of completeness and quality of aircraft preparation for flight.
- Collection of data on in-flight performance and technical condition of aircraft systems and units and pilot?s (flight crew?s) procedures for further statistical processing.
- Diagnostics and forecasting of the state of aircraft, its systems and equipment to provide for adequacy of input data for the logistic support system.
- Information support of aviation accident investigation.
In 2001, a new software version for system "Topaz-M" – "Aircraft control system" ("СКАТ") – has been developed. This software version made it possible to implement a concept of construction of modern unified flight data processing and analyzing systems for any types of aircraft of civil, commercial and experimental aviation at any aerodrome or aboard any aircraft carrier.