Effective Date: 19 June 98

The Team

Engineering Personnel and Tasks

Pre-Test Planning Activities

This phase of flight test is related with preparing to perform a test program.

Analysis Engineer

• Establish measurement requirements
  
• Generate Measurement Requests Forms(MRF inputs)
  
• Coordinate testing requirements into Test Information Sheets (TIS database)
  
• Establish Test Measurement List (TML inputs)
  
• Determine analysis methods
  
• Write job instructions
  
  

Instrumentation Engineer

• Review and approve measurement requests (MRF input)
  
• Determine hardware requirements for satisfying measurement requests and create the Instrumentation Configuration List (ICL)
  
• Procure and calibrate instruments required for satisfying MRFs
  
• Design instrumentation system for data acquisition
  
• Prepare instrumentation installation drawings
  
• Coordinate with manufacturing and flight line as required to install instrumentation
  
• Establish requirements for instrumentation configuration file format and tracking
  
  

Flight Test Engineer

• Research and Write test plan
  
• Establish schedules for testing
  
• Coordinate aircraft modifications
  
• Coordinate with flight operations and flight line personnel
  
  
  

Data Processing Engineers

• Implement analysis methods in software
  
• Support MRF, TML, and ICL inputs from analysis and instrumentation engineers
  
• Implement software for creating, maintaining and tracking instrumentation configuration files as specified by the instrumentation group
  

Testing Activities

This phase of flight test activities occurs during the time when an aircraft is actually being tested. Most activity during this phase is related to resolving day to day operational / testing related issues.

Analysis Engineer

• Review test cards prior to testing
  
• Monitor test activities as required
  
• Submit Test Data Requests (TDR)
  
• Review data for "correctness" and report instrumentation squawks when observed
  
• Assess completion of TIS test points
  
• Analyze test results
  
• Real-Time (or equivalent) quality control of data via on board crewing or telemetry support.
  
  
  

Instrumentation Engineer

• Maintain instrumentation to support test operations
  
• Respond to instrumentation squawks
  
• Maintain instrument calibrations
  
• Respond to additional measurement requests as required
  
  
  

Flight Test Engineer

• Maintain aircraft in flyable configuration
  
• Prepare test cards from test requirements
  
• Conduct pre and post test briefing
  
• Conduct tests
  
• Maintain aircraft configuration
  
• Modify aircraft configuration as required to meet test requirements
  
• Coordinate with flight operations and flight line personnel
  
• Report aircraft squawks
  
• Keep TIS tracking database up to date
  
  
  

Data Processing Engineers

• Support data reduction using test data requests
  
• Maintain instrumentation calibration database
  
• Maintain TIS I test tracking databases
  

This phase of the flight test cycle is related primarily to reporting test results and returning the aircraft to service.

Analysis Engineer

• Complete analysis of test results
  
• Prepare test reports
  
• Supply flight manual data as required
  
• Reviewing, analyzing, and disseminating test data to customers.
  
  

Instrumentation Engineer

• De-instrument aircraft
  
• Catalog and return instruments to storage
  
  
  

Flight Test Engineer

• Supervise de-modification and return to service of aircraft
  
• Prepare test reports as required
  
  
  

Data Processing Engineers

• Continue to support data acquisition / reduction activities
  
• Support test report activities