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Test Foundations
Understand the importance of flight test and fundamental components to plan, execute, analyze, and report on a flight test program.
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Real-World Examples
Flight test scenarios throughout the course demonstrate test planning and risk identification from recent programs, including F-16 Automatic Collision Avoidance System (ACAS), RQ-4 airworthiness, and many more.
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System Engineering Approach
Learn problem decomposition, requirement traceability, test planning, risk identification, and resource provisioning.
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Student Project
Learn to apply these concepts by planing, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a automobile cruise control and speedometer test project.
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Test Communication and Test Conduct
Learn how to apply test methodology, communication plans, determination of safety abort parameters, and use of test execution tools.
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Flight Test Engineering Tools
Design principles and best practices for the creation of test execution tools, including development of control room screens and test cards.
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Analysis
Flight test analysis methods will be introduced with methods for accessing, processing, and saving aircraft flight data with sample data sets and basic analysis tools provided.
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Reporting
Detailed technical reporting concepts, including technical writing basics, presentation of data, and technical presentation techniques.
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Scenario
The culmination of the course will entail a problem decomposition project where test planning, risk identification, risk management, and resource provisioning are applied to a real-world test scenario.