Solutions

MARGO
for SHOL Design

Our skills and technologies are used by:

77 different types
of helicopters and VTOL UAV

46 types of ship class and helicopter helipad models

More than 8 400
SHOL designed

SHOL design & operations

Safer and more efficient
offshore helicopter operations

Aircraft crew (manned and unmanned)

▶ SHOL design tool and training courses to
tailor your SHOL to your specific use cases

▶ Operational software for pilots, AIRBOSS &
FDOs to unique dynamic SHOL technology

▶ Reached full operational capability with
French Navy and French governmental
helicopters units / operators
(Ministry of Defense, Homeland Security, Customs & Civil Protection)

Bridge :
- officer of the watch
- superintendent
- captain

AIRBOSS & FDOs

Aviation ops (helicopters & UAVs)

(c) Marine nationale

SHOL design solutions

Design your bespoke SHOL charts

SHOL offshore operations

Operate your VTOL aircraft from ships and offshore platform helidecks safer

SHOL design training

SHOL design training, we train your organization's SHOL designers

We have designed and digitized SHOL charts for these VTOL aircraft types

By manufacturer's origin

SHOL design solutions

We designed more than 8400 digital Ship–Helicopter Operating Limits (SHOL) charts for a wide range of helicopters and helipads :

From 1 150 kg to 33 400 kg aircraft.
Up to rotors with a diameter of over 24 m.
From 6m radius up to 14 m x 14 m pads.

CRAZY Helicopter Landing On Ship In Rough Sea

We create SHOL diagrams tailored to your needs and digitalize your existing charts

With the ZEPHYR SHOL creation tool, organizing and conducting SHOL creation campaigns is 10 times faster and easier.
ZEPHYR software and our data analysis tools enable SHOL charts to be created in both the traditional paper format and our new, unique digital format within days of a campaign ending.

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SHOL operations

Aviation operations on ships, offshore platforms and rigs:

SAFER
SIMPLER

The HEOL app (iOS) integrates SHOL digital charts into your crew's EFBs, improving the air-safety and performance of your flight operations.

Achieve operational gains of between 20% and 35%, depending on the case.

MARGO is designed for:

Rig and ship crew: flight deck officers and airbosses.
Helicopter pilots

SHOL design training

We provide training courses on landing and take-off issues in offshore areas.
We train future designers of your diagrams.

One- to two-week training courses, depending on level:

BASICS

Academics

single spot operations

BASICS

Academics

multi spot and multi-aircraft operations

ADVANCED

Academics & practical use-cases

multi spot and multi-aircraft operations

ADVANCED &

MENTORING

Simulators and

live flight operations

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MARGO for SHOL design ensures a fully integrated process with your organization's internal network and verifies the integrity of the data.

MAR GO for SHOL design software suite will make it easier for you to create your SHOL charts and use them in your organization.

This software suite is known by the French Ministry of Armed Forces as ZEPHYR-HEOL

End-to-end systems, it includes the creation tools, the validation workflow and the operational interface to deploy SHOLs on your ships and helicopters, with dedicated applications (Windows and iOS).

ZEPHYR is dedicated to SHOL design
HEOL to aviation operations

432 TECHNOLOGIES is the exclusive global dealer of the ZEPHYR-HEOL product range.

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H160M with FDA Chevalier Paul class destroyer

H160M with FDA Chevalier Paul class destroyer (French Navy)

NH90 and UAV with FDI Destroyer

French NH-90 NFH ASM and VSR700 UAV with FDI Amiral Ronarc'h class destroyer (French Navy)

French NH-90 NFH ASM landing on a destroyer

H160M with FDA Chevalier Paul class destroyer

H160M with FDA Chevalier Paul class destroyer (French Navy)

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Zephyr-HEOL suite has been in operational service with the French Armed Forces (French Navy) since July 2024.

Full Operational Capacity (FOC) was reached in autumn 2024.

On board all helideck vessels, from OPVs to aircraft carriers, LHDs and destroyers with all their embarked helicopters, whatever their origin: naval aviation, air and space, army, customs, civil security, allies & partners helicopters.

ZEPHYR-HEOL is the continuation of the ZEPHYR-H project awarded in May 2021 with the AUDACE prize for the French Navy by the Marechal Leclerc de Hauteclocque Foundation and the French Minister of the Armed Forces with the support of its innovation agency (Agence de l'innovation de Défense).

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