Affordable integrated Antennas on Helicopters

The antennas number is increasing on-board rotorcraft and this trend is not ready to slow down regarding the growing need of connectivity. Rotorcrafts, especially the lightest ones will soon be saturated in antennas. This paper, without being exhaustive, presents some ways to tackle this fact, with the use of integrated antennas. Besides technical difficulties, the current certification constraints should be re-defined or at least adjusted.