Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) has long been accepted as a valuable technique in the aerospace industry, allowing quality control, maintenance and troubleshooting tasks to be performed with the minimum downtime, while maximizing safety, efficiency and operational time. 

An operator uses a compact videoscope system to inspect the combustion chamber of a Rolls-Royce RB211 industrial gas generator.

Turbine blade leading edge damage depth is measured using the Super Stereo Measurement facility of an Olympus IPLEX IIR videoscope.

An inspector using an Olympus Series 5 rigid borescope to inspect undercarriage components in-situ.

Olympus incorporated advanced opto-digital technology into its industrial videoscope, fiberscope and borescope systems, making it possible to not only inspect turbines and other difficult-to-access areas, but also to locate, measure and monitor foreign object damage (FOD) through both borescopes and videoscopes.     

Documentation of results is often essential in aviation, to allow discussion with colleagues who may be elsewhere in the world, or to allow damage progression to be checked.  When the advanced Olympus IPLEX IIR videoscope system is used, the IPLEX II Image Manager software enables a wide range of image management functions to be performed, including image storage, voice annotation and e-mail.