Services that
AvioConsult
can provide
Flight
testing of aircraft or simulator
(Experimental) Flight testing or evaluating aircraft,
aircraft systems or simulators in a professional way can only be performed by
properly educated professionals. The training for these professionals is
provided by only four (military) Test Pilot Schools in the world (at very high cost).
The entry level is usually a MSc degree. Graduates of these
schools are the best trained operational aviation professionals. During
their training they flew more than 20 different types of aircraft, including gliders, fighter jets,
big and small propeller aircraft, big transports and helicopters, and
received some 600 hours of academics and laboratory time.
Refer to the links
page for details on any of the Test Pilot Schools.
Certification of an aircraft to government rules and regulations certainly tells
you a lot about the airworthiness and the safety of the aircraft, but nothing
yet on the requirements that you might have to make money with the flying
machine (or its simulator).
AvioConsult advices on evaluating aircraft and simulators to certification regulations
as well as to user requirements, and advices on verifications
of performance, flying qualities or systems in co-operation with flight crew of the
customer.
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Buying
an aircraft or a simulator
AvioConsult can assist the customer to ascertain that a
candidate aircraft really will perform what the customer wants the machine to
do.
Making a well determined choice for a certain type is not simple. Your
operational requirement needs to be translated into an aircraft specification
that is made available to potential providers. Once contact is established, a
huge amount of data is generated and sent to you. Manufacturers do a great job
in marketing their aircraft and providing you with an overwhelming amount of
data. But do they really answer your questions?
Can
their aircraft or simulator really do what you want the equipment to do? Is
the range of the aircraft with the payload you anticipate putting on-board in accordance with your
requirement? Don't you buy too many on-board systems for the job?
Does the manufacturer provide you with all of the data that is required for your
operations, or do you - shortly after accepting the equipment - find out that
expensive alterations or additions are required?
Bring in AvioConsult to verify proposals, contracts, specifications and statements of work,
to review manufacturer
provided data and to assist you during design or specification reviews with the
manufacturer. In general, Test Pilot School graduates (of AvioConsult) are
appreciated aviation professionals in the industry who cannot easily be deceived.
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If your aircraft cannot do the job you want it to
do,
it might be useful to modify the aircraft. The consequences a
modification might have on the operational use needs to be investigated
ahead of accepting the modification proposal. Changes can and will happen to either
performance (payload-range, weight & balance), flying qualities,
ground handling, lay-out of cockpit or cabin (human factors) or training.
Also, operational documentation (checklists, quick reaction handbooks,
operating manuals, flight planning software) will need specific attention. And if simulators
are being modified or the software is going to be changed, the training program
syllabus needs careful review to determine whether the simulator still
meets the specification and the syllabus requirements.
AvioConsult can assist you with the above.
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Government agencies perform airworthiness
certifications. AvioConsult is educated and trained to perform the
certification flight testing required for certification of an aircraft
and can assist you as an independent consultant during meetings with the
certifying authorities and/or to evaluate their reports.
AvioConsult could also provide advice on certain operational aspects of certification
and flight tests to
aviation authorities. An example is presented in the report that is
introduced on the products
page.
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Aircraft Research is expensive. Objectives
need to be specified completely and correctly from the very beginning of
a project. The research needs preferably to be
performed by an institute that specializes on aircraft research.
If you don't know where to go, ask AvioConsult to find the institute you
require.
If the chosen research institute doesn't have much experience in
aviation though, the customer has to provide that. Close cooperation between
institute and aviation specialists is required to assure that the research is going to meet
the objectives within the time
and budget constraints specified.
AvioConsult can provide aircraft operations expertise prior to and during the
aircraft research activities.
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Aircraft accident investigations are performed by
government agencies. AvioConsult can assist with clarification of the
reports and provide you with an independent advice on the operational aspects of
the investigation and the conclusions in the accident reports. The
report presented on the
products page might serve as an
example. AvioConsult can also assist with, or monitor the investigations.
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Designing cockpit procedures that can be used
during normal and abnormal operations and in emergencies requires specific expertise
and experience. In anything can go wrong, it might not if a perfect
checklist is being used. AvioConsult has many years of experience in
writing and controlling the contents of aircrew checklists and operational
manuals. As an example, in the report that is introduced on the products
page, many improvement proposals are presented.
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Quality
Management System Audits
AvioConsult is trained as lead auditor to perform ISO
9001:2000 based quality management system audits in aviation companies.
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