PILOT TACTILE INTERFACES
Our products provide
unique tactile experience.
Crouzet provides a unique piloting experience, ensuring precise and reliable
transmission of pilot commands to the onboard computer.
All Pilot Tactile Interfaces families
Innovative Pilot Tactile Interfaces.
Crouzet provides Buttons, Control Grips and Controls Wheels for more than five decades being able to assist aircraft manufacturers in specification finalization and validation integrating human factors considerations while complying with certification requirements.
Working with Airplanes, Helicopters, eVTOL manufacturers and tiers one suppliers enables Crouzet’ team to offer a large range of solutions for materials, surface finish, colors allowing each customer to value its brand.
Crouzet Human Engineering’ team will provide guidance and support to define the hand shape, the touch and feel you expect, and you will benefit from a large range of Buttons and accessories made by Crouzet.
Why choosing Crouzet for your pilots?
Enable safer flights
Enhance pilot comfort
Compliance with certification
Product maturity
Get to know the full offer
Control Wheels
For over 50 years, Crouzet has been providing technically advanced custom Control Wheels for major programs worldwide with best-in-class quality and logistical excellence.
We pride ourselves in being able to assist Aircraft manufacturers in specification finalization, thus avoiding costly mistakes.
Crouzet’ design is fully tested and certified: both the wheels and components are already flying worldwide.
More than 2400 Control Wheels are produced each year.
Main applications are:
- General Aviation
- Business Jets
- Military Transport Airplanes
- Regional Airplanes
Crouzet Human Engineering’ team will provide guidance and support to define the hand shape, the touch and feel you expect, and you will benefit from a large range of buttons and accessories made by Crouzet.
Crouzet System Engineering team will understand your requirements, the system safety architecture and will provide you with documented compliance to certification. Differentiation and marking of buttons to avoid miss-uses, redundancy, dissimilarity according to human factor requirements and safety assessment are our daily tasks.
Crouzet has a worldwide spare part distribution network capable of supporting the Aircraft manufacturers and their customers.
CROUZET is both an OEM and MRO solution provider.
Design features & Main Tactile Functions:
Design features
- Aluminum
- Plastic molded
- Composite
- Leather finishing
- Single, dual connectors or cables
- Line Replaceable unit
- Control Wheel level
- Buttons level
Functions
- Shaker
- Hand ON – Hand OFF
- Hand rest
- Thumb rest
- Analog or digital interface
- Pilot load monitoring
Main Tactile Functions
- Push To talk
- Autopilot Disconnect
- Autopilot connect
- Go Around Mode
- Priority switch
- Pitch & Roll TRIM
- Overhead Vision
- Night Vision
Control Grips
For over 70 years, Crouzet has been providing technically advanced custom Control Grips for major programs worldwide with best-in-class quality and logistical excellence.
Crouzet defined the modular concept for helicopter grips. This heritage enables Crouzet to meet 100% of a customer’s needs relative to ergonomics. This unique design approach not only gives Crouzet customers increased flexibility, but it greatly reduces the customization Leadtime. Production can start earlier and continue, and minor changes are easily made at the Final Assembly Lines.
More than 3000 Control Grips are produced each year.
Main applications are:
- Helicopter Cyclic Control Grips
- Helicopter Collective Control Grips
- Airplanes Control Grips for Side Stick Controller or Throttle Control Lever
- Special mission Control Grips such as Gun Control, Optronic Control
Crouzet Human Engineering’ team will provide guidance and support to define the hand shape, the touch and feel you expect, and you will benefit from a large range of buttons and accessories made by Crouzet.
Crouzet System Engineering team will understand your requirements, the system safety architecture and will provide you with documented compliance to certification. Differentiation and marking of buttons to avoid miss-uses, redundancy, dissimilarity according to human factor requirements and safety assessment are our daily tasks.
With our ability to design and integrate the Control Grips into Side-Stick Controllers, Throttle Control Levers, Collective and/or Cyclic Control Levers, our engineering team has huge experience of Control Grips design and integration and can support Joint Design Phase for your program.
According to your maintenance strategy, our team can propose Line Replaceable Unit at Control Grip level or at Buttons level.
CROUZET is both an OEM and MRO solution provider.
Design features & Main Tactile Functions:
Design features
- Aluminum
- Plastic molded
- Composite
- Single or dual load path
- Single, dual connectors or cables
- Line Replaceable unit
- Control GRIP level
- Button panel level
- Buttons level
Functions
- Shaker
- Hand ON – Hand OFF
- Hand rest
- Thumb rest
- Analog or digital interface
- Pilot Load Monitoring
Main Tactile Functions
- Push To talk
- Autopilot Disconnect
- Autopilot connect
- BIP TRIM
- TRIM release
- Go Around Mode
- Priority switch
- Cable cut
- Search Light ON/OFF
- Cargo Hook
- Overhead Vision
- Optronic Control
- Gun
Buttons
Crouzet design and manufacture a large range of switches used as Human Machine Interface.
By designing its own buttons, Crouzet provides:
- Calibrated tactile effect
- Variety of head shape
- Wide range of colors
- Safety and reliability analysis
- Calculation
By manufacturing its own buttons, Crouzet provides an aerospace quality grade with an individual acceptance test on each product.
Crouzet can design dedicated functions for any customer application. More than 200 electrical combinations are available with a large range of accessories providing multiple solutions to mitigate command errors.
This product line is used for helicopters, airplanes and eVTOL bringing a unique experience for 60 years. Crouzet can integrate these buttons in Control Grips, Control Wheels, TRIM Control Panels, Side-Stick Controllers and Throttle Control Levers.
By its product integration experience, Crouzet ‘system engineering offers its customers all the benefits of vertical integration: integration solutions, calculation, safety assessment, cost control, and proven dependable quality.
Extensive research at Crouzet has resulted in industrialized and manufactured buttons (one pole, two pole, 2, 3, 4 and 5 ways trim, trigger, joysticks, transducer), developed QuickFix0™, QuickConnect™ to allow a line Replaceable units and contactless switches to increase the life of the component.
TRIM Control Panel
Crouzet design and manufacture a large range of switches used as Human Machine Interface.
By designing its own buttons, Crouzet provides:
- Calibrated tactile effect
- Variety of head shape
- Wide range of colors
- Safety and reliability analysis
- Calculation
This product line is used for helicopters, airplanes and eVTOL bringing a unique experience for 60 years. Crouzet can integrate these buttons in Control Grips, Control Wheels, TRIM Control Panels, Side-Stick Controllers and Throttle Control Levers.
By its product integration experience, Crouzet ‘system engineering offers its customers all the benefits of vertical integration: integration solutions, calculation, safety assessment, cost control, and proven dependable quality.
The TRIM Control Panel is one of the Crouzet value propositions to optimize the ergonomic interface for the pilot, the space location on the flight desk. The product is delivered with an acceptance test report and is a Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) saving operators time when assembled in the aircraft.
Design features & product range:
Buttons type
- Push button
- Two ways
- Multi-Ways
- Toggle
- Rocker
- Joystick
- Trigger
Contact Configuration
- Single, dual, triple, quadruple poles
- Single, dual or triple throw
- Dual break
- Normally open or normally closed
Accessories
- Circular ring
- Flap guard
- Auxiliary Contacts
- Colors
- Head shapes
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Crouzet announces the acquisition of Lord Solutions France.
Lord Solutions France (LSF) was transferred to Crouzet on Tuesday, February 28, 2023. The business now operates as Crouzet Flight Control Equipment, which is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Crouzet. Since 1990, Lord Solutions France has been a recognized leader in the manufacture of aircraft flight control equipments for the general aviation, business aviation, rotorcraft and military aircraft markets, including the popular Fly-by-Wire product line. As part of Crouzet, Crouzet Flight Control Equipment will continue their strong team-oriented culture, longstanding customer relationships and rich history in the aerospace industry.
Crouzet
Lord Solutions France
Acquisition of Lord Solutions France