Flight Test 101 - How to develop advanced aerospace products

Safe, successful development of high-risk flight vehicles and systems
What you'll learn
Understand the foundational concepts for flight test
Apply flight test priorities to balance safety with efficiency
Understand the difference between a databand and a tolerance
Identify key flight test team roles and responsibilities
Identify key terminology for flight test execution
Identify differences and interdependencies for test planning versus safety planning
Requirements
No aviation or flight test experience required. Prerequisites include a passion for aerospace and interest in building the future of flight.
Description
Flight Test for Success - Learn the fundamentals of flight test in about 90 minutes.
This course introduces aerospace professionals to flight test concepts for efficient development of successful products in elevated risk environments. Focus on strategies for test planning, risk management, and team structure in flight test programs.
Product teams and businesses using professional flight test methods are over twice as likely to result in a successful product, and complete operational development in one third the time.
Any new aerospace product is a bet on the future. Development timelines are usually measured in years, and require a multidisciplinary engineering team. Early application of professional flight test methodologies is proven to substantially reduce development costs and timelines, while improving customer and mission focus.
Yes, you should apply the principles of professional flight test long before there is a product to test.
Flight test practices are relevant across engineering disciplines and enhance both the aerospace professional and product team. This course's skill sets and tools accelerate product development and avoid costly disasters. Flight test is a team sport.
Flight test principles create value for aerospace development teams
Stay on schedule: Anticipating flight test requirements keeps projects on critical path. By planning parallel subsystem build-up tests, surprises are minimized later in the development cycle. The process is smooth, and smooth is quick.
Control the amount and types of risks: Flight test risk management does not mean zero risk, but includes powerful tools to anticipate specific hazards and identify mitigations.
Avoid costly redesign: Flight test reinforces requirements traceability with tools like system engineering. By incorporating "testability", product teams can minimize shifting goalposts and anticipate interfaces across the design.

Who this course is for:
Every aerospace product development team member benefits from learning to think like a test pilot or flight test engineer! Whatever your role in building the future of flight, it helps to understand the proven tools for success. This course is useful for program managers, engineers, artificial intelligence and autonomy researchers , senior managers, data scientists, and of course vehicle crews.

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