For those of you who remember my original post, I thought i'd get back to you on how the course went. In short, it was excellent - thoroughly enjoyable and probably the most valuable experience of my degree so far. It turned out that the course was conducted from Southampton International, so we were spared the presumed slog to Cranfield every day.
The topics that we covered were Drag Characteristics and Static Stability, Dynamic Stability (a lot of fun), and finishing with a look at Navigation Systems.
As suggested, I talked to the chief test pilot and asked how he got into TP-ing, and he turned out to be ex-RAF and ETPS graduate. His view was that the ATPL/experience route was probably less likely to work the the FTE-with-flying-experience route, because of the way an airline pilot is taught to fly. Is that a view that is shared here?
A few people asked me about the new test suite and the new Jetstream 31. Would it be possible for you to ask specific questions, as I am not allowed to reproduce the entire documentation that we have been given. I'd also hate to give a load of information and find that none of it was what you were looking for. Thanks.
Kind regards and happy landings.
Ginge
