Flight Testing
Types of testing
As a part of your team, our professional flight testers will conduct the testing your project needs. From concept to completion, we will safely and efficiently handle all necessary aspects of testing, including:
- Test site selection
- test aircraft selection
- test planning & management
- FAA interface
- performance
- handling qualities
- envelope expansion
- low speed (high AOA) flight
- spin testing
- high speed / dive testing
- flutter testing
- acoustical testing
- compliance testing
- data collection & reduction
- professional test reports
A typical flight test project
30 minute phone call to discuss your needs and goals
We will work together to specify and write down the detailed work LRL Aviation will be doing with you or for you.
Developing the road map, such as determining test site, selecting & procuring test aircraft, interface with FAA to obtain necessary permissions, writing test plans & test cards, scheduling the test crew.
An ongoing part of the process from the beginning, a Safety Review is a critical stop-gate to pass through before we take that first flight with a new or modified aircraft. As needed, we will performa and review engineering analyses, customize operating procedures, run simulations, install or use special equipment, run ground tests, etc.
Once the preparation is done, we will run the ground and flight tests as planned. When properly executed, a successful flight test campaign is way less exciting than non-flight test professionals think it is.
Once the data are collected, we will apply sound engineering practices to review, reduce, and normalize the data. Finally, all of the work will be summarized in professional flight test reports detailing what was done and the results of the test.