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 Short Course - Flight Handling Qualities

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Workshop Objectives

To give delegates hands-on experience of assessing an aircraft’s handling

qualities against recommended criteria through:

• understanding HQ theory

• conducting simulated flight trials

• designing for HQ improvements

• working in a team to achieve complex technical goals within tight timescales.

Day 1 briefing on workshop objectives and plan;

         lectures on handling qualities theory and

         practice; delegates allocated to teams;

         descriptions of aircraft roles and upgrade

         requirements; first flights in simulator,

         review of day.

Day 2 tutorials on off-line HQ assessments;

         design of critical mission tasks; briefings

         with pilots; begin first HQ assessments on

         flight simulator.

Day 3 continue first HQ assessments; review of

          assessments; lectures/tutorials on

          upgrade technologies (control systems,

          aerodynamic devices, powerplants); begin

          upgrade design activities; workshop dinner.

Day 4 continue upgrade design activities; piloted

         assessments of upgrades.

Day 5 continue piloted assessments; critical

         review of results; workshop washup.

Practicing engineers, flight test engineers and 

test pilots, academics and research fellows and

students. It is envisaged that multi-disciplinary/ability teams will be assembled from the delegate cohort.

£1700 per person. For their investment, delegates will have

the opportunity to engage in the active learning experience

of the workshop, consult with HQ experts, receive

workshop notes in paper and CD form (including the

theoretical basis for HQ engineering, flight dynamics and

control system design). Lunches, daily refreshments and

the workshop dinner are included in the fee.

Accommodation, breakfast and evening meals are not

included in the fee.

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• Gareth Padfield, Professor of Aerospace Engineering,

  author of the Blackwell Science book, Helicopter Flight

  Dynamics, with 35 years experience in HQ research

• Daniel Walker, Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering

  and specialist in flight control design techniques and

  solutions

• Mark White, Flight Simulation Manager and lead in

  simulation fidelity research

• Neil Cameron, post-doctoral researcher in tilt rotor

  aircraft HQs

• Ben Lawrence, post-doctoral researcher; FLIGHTLAB

  expert and lead in Liverpool ‘Wright Brothers’ HQ project

• Andy Berryman, ex RN Test Pilot, now flying Boeing 747-

  400 for BA and project pilot on the European Civil Tilt

  Rotor research at Liverpool

• Martin Mayer, ex RAF test pilot and Commanding Officer,

  ETPS

This dedicated team will provide close support during the

workshop, giving seminars on HQ theory, control system

design, aircraft modelling and simulation, designing mission

task elements and flight testing, including pilot interpretation

of HQs.

Flight Simulation Laboratory in the Engineering Tower at The

University of Liverpool. The Bibby Flight Simulator

features 6-axes of motion, 6 visual channels, force feel controls and the FLIGHTLAB modelling and simulation environment. MATLAB/ Simulink will also be used

extensively on the workshop.

http://www.flightlab.liv.ac.uk

Please contact Maria White at The University of Liverpool (Tel: 0151 794 4859 email: maria.white@liverpool.ac.uk)