Patent ID: 8836541

Claim:
A rotorcraft having on-board lighting equipment for lighting the surrounding environment, the lighting equipment comprising a plurality of lighting devices for lighting specific remote zones for illumination, the lighting equipment including at least a landing lighting device and a winching lighting device, each of the lighting devices having at least one headlight comprising a unit housing a lighting module having an optical system and a light source, and control means for controlling the emission of a light beam by the headlights, the headlights from the landing lighting device and winching lighting device forming a group of headlights, the landing lighting device and winching lighting device selectively cooperatively defining a searching lighting system, the searching lighting system comprising at least two searchlights providing a searching lighting function, the at least two searchlights comprising at least two headlights from the group of headlights mounted to move on the rotorcraft and fitted with drive means for driving the searchlight in azimuth and in elevation relative to the rotorcraft, the drive means being operated by search control means from a search lighting command to light a search zone for illumination, which command is generated by at least one search control member operated by a human, the headlights of the landing lighting device and winching lighting device being distributed over the rotorcraft in a landing lighting function and a winching lighting function, the searching lighting function obtained by applying a search lighting command common to all of the headlights, and on the basis of selective activation by the control means of the headlights of the lighting equipment.