Flight Test Safety Fact, 21-07
The US is about to celebrate our Independence Day, which is an event that is part of our culture but also a sign that it’s peak growing season for corn and soybean and every other crop that drones are sensing
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Flight Test Safety Fact, 21-05
I once heard someone say that when you get your pilot certificate (or wings), you get issued two metaphorical buckets: A bucket full of luck and an empty bucket labeled “experience.” The object is to fill the latter one up before
Flight Test Safety Fact, 21-03
If you could travel back in time (something Turbo discusses inside this month’s edition) to continue your work as a flight test professional, but you can’t tell anyone that you are from the future, and further suppose that all you
Letter to the Editor – FTSF 21-01
Editor’s note: WigB wrote this response when asked to review the article Better than Lessons Learned. I don’t think I completely agree with your conclusion. When I was a project pilot I deliberately found all the information I could on
Better than “Lessons Learned”
Two serendipitous things happened this week. I.In the first case, I was in a virtual meeting with a group of four other test professionals—friends, really—our conversation wandered about pleasantly, like a river in the flatlands. In the course of our
Flight Test Safety Fact, 20-11
How often have you heard the term “Lessons Learned”? If you attended this year’s SETP virtual symposium, you heard it a lot. If you have been in this business for more than a few years, you have heard it a lot.
Flight Test Safety Fact, 20-09
It seems like just yesterday I opened my email and found that Dave Houle had emailed a personal story about the C-17 first flight. He watched it from a hill overlooking the field where he worked. Dave was a distinguished
Flight Test Safety Fact, 20-08
Welcome back. I needed the break and thank you all for your patience as FTSF took a month off in July. The pace of life is starting to pick back up and accelerate as we head downhill on the back half of
EASA issues VTOL Means of Compliance Proposal
On 25 May, EASA published document number MOC SC-VTOL Issue 1, “Proposed Means of Compliance with the Special Condition VTOL” on their website. Comments are due by July 24, and I hope our readers will take time to look it
Flight Test Safety Fact, 20-06
What are the chances that important things are happening so fast in our industry, and in so many places around the world, that you missed one of them? One example is the VTOL Proposed Means of Compliance, a document EASA