Thales autopilot solutions for aircraft and helicopter

Thales' autopilot solutions for forwardfit and retrofit integration for civil and military airplane

Air combat
Helicopter
Civil Aviation

Thales offers innovative autopilot solutions, certified by both the FAA and EASA, and flying all around the world today on various platforms. Thales’ solution and architecture is adaptable to any aircraft design: commercial, regional, military, business jets, helicopter and drones.

FORCES

Versatile certified autopilot

Thales autopilot is certified by FAA & EASA and adaptable to any aircraft type civil, military, helicopter, drone. It supports forward fit or retrofit integration with advanced control and guidance modes.
Full autopilot suite

Thales provides a complete autopilot solution: software, control panels, actuators, sensors, and auto throttle. Designed for precision approaches (CAT IIIB, LPV, RNP-AR) with built-in flight envelope protection.
Upgrade legacy fleets

Thales enhances existing autopilots with added functions like LPV and Search & Rescue modes. Certified tools and agile methods ensure fast deployment and airworthiness compliance across global fleets.

Since the very first autopilot development for the Concorde supersonic aircraft 60 years ago, Thales (named Sfena at that time) has built a strong expertise in this domain with civil and military programs worldwide, including state-of-the-art 4-axis duplex helicopter AFCS, certified for single pilot IFR, SAR, and more. Today, Thales autopilots cumulate billions of flight hours with outstanding customer satisfaction level.

From equipment and software to end-to-end system

Our scope of solutions includes single equipment to end-to-end autopilot system as well as software solution which can be installed on existing computing device.

It includes:

Autopilot software application that implements several functions: stabilization and control, guidance modes, auto throttle, etc;
Control panels;
Auto throttle assembly;
Actuators;
Probes and sensors;
Computing device.

FEATURES

Certified with TSO/ETSO, DAL A;
Precision Approach modes up to ILS CATIIIB and including steep approach;
Non Precision Approach modes: LNAV, LNAV/VNAV, RNP-AR 0.3, LPV, GLS
Protection: flight envelope, Alpha floor, speed protection, windshear escape guidance, TCAS/TAWS AP coupling, sensor single source;
Auto throttle / Auto thrust (Thrust Quadrant Assembly included);
Military modes including terrain following.

Thales is an active member of the Air Weather Operations Harmonization Aviation Rule Making Committee (AWOH ARC), established by the FAA, as a joint effort between FAA, EASA and industry and other aviation entities to provide recommendations to government. Through this committee, Thales participates to most recent regulation development regarding AWO operation based on emerging technology such as GLS, EVS and SVS.