Flight test instrumentation
One of the very Important and interesting field in Aerodynamics or simply the Aeronautical engineering is the tests in which engineers analyze, study and control the Flights of airplanes for how they are working, their design stability or any other tests involved is the same category are its flight tests and such Instruments used to help engineers are refer as Flight Test Instrumentation. The tests goes from different steps for example managing and maintaining of design and to make the model to be able to pass for official licensing and licensing is done only when the agency approve it that the particular design is suitable to Takeoff.
Flight Test Instrumentation technique was first used when the pioneers of aircraft “Wright brother” used their classical and analogue instruments to test their air kite and after the first failure they try to analyze the cause of this failure and thus Flight Test Instrumentation technique was born.
The rapid growth in Engineering and Technology has brought many superb Flight Test Instrumentation techniques which have change the way the airplanes use to be in the past. Simulator softwares and virtual cockpits also teach many aspects of Flight Test Instrumentation and these techniques are regarded as best Flight Test Instrumentation techniques because these tests are risk free.
Flight Test Instrumentation involved different stages of testing the aircraft which are mostly done on the ground to avoid risk and the loss of life and that’s one of the reason many engineers use Air simulators in their tests.
Flight Test Instrumentation methods obviously require the latest electrical, electronic and digital equipments and all of them together make the test go smoothly and analytically. Providers of Flight Test Instrumentation are the local or international companies and they provide instruments to government institutes or to the private airlines or air clubs.
One of the major provider of Flight Test Instrumentation equipments is AIS which has been serving the industry provides equipments like Navigation Instruments, Engine Instruments, Transmitters, Remote Gyros, Clocks, Oscilloscope specifically designed for Flight Test Instrumentation methods. Providers of Instruments also provide the process equipments and plans of the tests such as Static trailing cones, antennas as well as High-end GPS receivers for precise positioning of the aircraft - measures the takeoff distance, and also distances upon landing, accelerate-stop distances, the braking performance, Vmcg runway centerline deviation, altitude position errors, as well as airspeed, Pressure transducers, equipment for video recording, Data acquisition systems and data loggers etc also it depends from provider to provider about the services they can provide.
