30 hours should be more than adequate for anything I can think you're likely to try and do.
A few thoughts that may be helpful...
- I've seen very poor results from students at MSc or PhD level trying to bring in an involved test pilot, give them a 5 minute briefing, then put them straight into a simulator to "assess" it. If using your supervisors as TPs, that means involving them in procedure design, planning, simulator use, etc. as early as possible.
-Eastern European TPs, in my limited experience of the breed, were far less involved in test planning and management than their Western counterparts are used to. In most cold war era Eastern European countries the test pilots were much more required to do-as-instructed, whilst the primacy in programme management decisions tended to be with the senior engineers. So, your supervisors may simply have not had the level of theory that is, for example, in Kimberlin, in the first place.
- Define the real aircraft you're assessing?
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