What You'll Learn

The short course is a subset of the Flight Test Foundations curriculum. It is intended for any engineer, scientist, researcher, or manager who engages in the planning, execution, analysis, and/or reporting of flight test activities.

  • Test Foundations

    Understand the importance of flight test and fundamental components to plan, execute, analyze, and report on a flight test program.

  • 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.

  • System Engineering Approach

    Learn problem decomposition, requirement traceability, test planning, risk identification, and resource provisioning.

Course curriculum

    1. Course Welcome

    2. Introduction to Systems Engineering for Flight Test

    3. Before we begin... a pre-course survey.

    4. Importance of Flight Test - Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS)

    5. Program Requirements and Mission Need

    6. Plan-Execute-Analyze-Report (PEAR) Flight Test Process

    7. Example project: Evaluation of an Automobile

    8. Scientific Method for Flight Test - Predict Test Validate

    9. Systems Theory for Flight Test - Abstraction and Modeling

    10. Real world example - Automatic Air Collision Avoidance System (Auto ACAS)

    11. Systems Theory Applied to Auto ACAS

    12. Example Systems Engineering Project

    13. Flight Test Tech Talk: Systems Engineering Applied to a Real-World Project

    14. Systems Engineering Quiz

    15. Congratulations

About this course

  • $199.00
  • 15 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

Why Choose This Course?

  • Expert Instruction: Taught by a leading flight test engineering instructor.

  • Comprehensive Curriculum: Practical .

  • Flexible Learning: Access course modules on-demand to learn at your own pace.

  • Practical application: Directly relevant to developing the future of flight.

What's it like to learn with Daedalus Aerospace

Interact with your instructor, ask questions, and learn at your own pace.

Daedalus Aerospace provides training and tools for aerospace professionals, with on-demand courses in flight test planning/execution, risk management, and data analytics. Our courses communicate the same concepts taught at accredited test pilot schools and used by leading flight test centers. Learn the principles, tools and processes used by flight test professionals, without the travel and high cost of in-person training. Few have opportunity to attend a test pilot school, but you and your team can benefit from the same knowledge. 

This course includes:

  • Ongoing access to instructor for questions

  • Over 3 hours of on-demand video

  • Practical instruction from a leading expert in flight test engineering

  • Access on mobile device, tablet, or computer

  • Certificate of completion

Previous Customer Organizations for Flight Test Foundations

Flight test leaders from these organizations have already received this training:

NAVAIR
Lockheed Martin
Sikorsky
AIAA
Federal Aviation Administration
Amp-Aero Technology
Wing Aviation
British Airways
American Airlines

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Learning Objective

A systems engineering approach to flight test will be presented, introducing the concept of problem decomposition, requirement traceability, test planning, risk identification, and resource provisioning.

  • Apply a Systems Engineering philosophy to problem decomposition and risk identification for a sample real-world flight test vignette.

Your Instructor

Instructor Flight Test Engineer Jessica Peterson

Jessica “STING” Peterson has over 18 years of experience in Flight Test Engineering on fighter, bomber, trainer, and unmanned aircraft. She is a graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) and has logged over 500 hours in 40+ aircraft types as a Flight Test Engineer, primarily in the T-38, F-16, and C-12 aircraft. She is currently a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant for the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Nevada Reno, primarily interested in autonomy, human-machine teaming, and flight controls. Prior to returning to graduate school, she worked as a DoD Civil Service employee for the United States Air Force (USAF) in flight test for 18 years, conducting flight test on fighter, bomber, and unmanned aircraft. Her most recent position with the USAF was as the Technical Director for the 412th Operations Group and as an Instructor Flight Test Engineer for the US Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) at Edwards Air Force Base. As an instructor at USAF TPS, she instructed hundreds of flight test and space test professionals and advised on numerous research projects. She holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and the Naval Postgraduate School, respectively, and a Master's degree in Flight Test Engineering from USAF TPS. The highlight of her career was to shake the hand of a pilot whose life was saved by a system she helped develop and test, the F-16 Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS) -- a system that has saved 13 military pilots' lives to date.

Need Group Training?

Daedalus Aerospace offers discounted group enrollments, with web dashboard access for your training manager.

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