EASA released its Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 1.0 this past week on 7 Feb 2020. Aside from the observation that “roadmap” seems like an ill-fitting analogy for an industry based in the cloud, I wonder what took them so long. If
Have you submitted your presentation proposal for the Flight Test Safety Workshop? The deadline is closer than you think–you can read the call for papers inside this edition of the Flight Test Safety Fact. You will also find details about the
In flight test as in other disciplines, measurement and calculation result in different types of errors. Some of these errors are not systematic but are random. Often we call these measurement errors noise, and it is these errors that are
Last time, we left the reader with a question under the heading “Assess the frequency of potential outcomes.” This post tries to adequately answer that question. When I was sitting down in front of my book, I would count the
In the previous post on this topic, we suggested that counting is hard and used the example of counting words in a book. There are three heuristics for communicating uncertainty (3Q) that we will use to help us organize our
It’s January 2, and when I opened my email this morning, I saw this from Pete Donath, “retired” FTE and Flight Test Safety Committee Board of Directors member: “I had a nightmare (or two) last night…” That will get your
In December, we launched the Flight Test Safety podcast. By “podcast,” we mean “audio recording,” which is the popular meaning of the term. You can find it wherever you subscribe to podcasts, whether that is on the Apple podcast app
Welcome back! The new year brings a new format and a new podcast, both of which you can see inside this issue. Turning the page on the calendar gives us another important opportunity: the chance to reflect. Stop and think
I don’t remember when I first met Pete, but I remember when I first heard Pete. It was 2014 when I joined the Board of Directors for SFTE. Several years later, when we met in person, it was like I’d
This is Jake, my youngest son, and he just turned seven a few months before this photo. I wish this picture had better resolution so you could see the look on his face. I snapped it with my phone, and