Flight test creates big data! Did you know that a single instrumented test aircraft creates onboard data streams > 5 MB/sec, or a few gigabytes during the mission? Aerospace programs deal with terabytes of data. Don't just collect the data... what's your plan for analysis?
Flight test is all about getting the data, but flight testers need the right tools to handle the volume and complexity of data signals generated by modern instrumentation. Learn how to use Python with our open-source modules to visualize your flight test data.
MATLAB is often taught as a tool for data analysis, but the modules can be pricey and proprietary.
Data handling in Excel is time consuming and laborious.
Time spent processing data is time that's not spent analyzing data and getting to results. Python is the most sought after language for data analytics today, so we are teaching how to use Python based applications to analyze and interpret flight test results.
This course is unique, because we use a flight test data set to demonstrate the use of Python!
Demonstrations make sense when the examples are relevant to actual needs
Real flight test data from actual flight assets would face proprietary or classification issues...
This course uses data tapped from commercially available flight simulators to show flight test techniques
Register now and start using Python for flight test data analysis!
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David Kern is a graduate of the US Air Force Test Pilot School, with experience planning and flying hundreds of flight test missions for civil aircraft certification and military projects. He is an Associate Fellow with the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and Member of the Society of Flight Test Engineers. In his USAF career, he was the USAF F-16 project test pilot for the Collier Trophy-winning Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (AGCAS) and served as Instructor Test Pilot and Director of Operations at the USAF Test Pilot School, teaching all parts of the multi-engine and fighter curricula. In civil flight test, he served as a flight test pilot for the Aircraft Certification Service with the Federal Aviation Administration, and is currently a Flight Test Captain for a major airline. He holds a Master of Science in Flight Test Engineering and B.Sci. Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. He also holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate with eight type ratings, is an active Certified Flight Instructor for instrument conditions, and has logged piloting time at the flight controls of over 80 different types of aircraft. His publications include "Flight Test Techniques for Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar", "Accelerated Development of Flight Tested Sensors and Systems", and “Introduction to Fly-by-Wire Flight Control Systems: The professional pilot’s guide to understanding modern aircraft controls.”
