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Does anyone know of any decent flight test resources online - spreadsheets, software etc? If so I'd be delighted to hear from you!
Come to think of it, if you have any useful stuff you might want to email feel free!

Regards
GA

http://www.setp.org is the obvious one, lots of useful papers. Similarly http://www.sfte.org which is less readable but has a lot more technical stuff.

Microlight spin testing guidance at http://www.bmaa.org/025_1.pdf

A selection of generic test schedules (again for microlights but modifiable for most fixed wing types) at http://www.bmaa.org/forms.htm (look at forms 010, 011, 027 - plus 034 is an ETPS style blank test plan pro-forma)

Guidance on performance testing light propeller aircraft at http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Airper-BA.htm

Lots of conversion factors and formulae at http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.html

A few oddments at the RAeS at: - http://www.raes.org.uk/light-av/papers.htm and http://www.raes.org.uk/raes /First/specialistgroups/specialistgroup.asp?sessid=&group=20
(The latter is rather profoundly uninformative)


That's about all I've got I'm afraid.

G

[ 11 October 2001: Message edited by: Genghis the Engineer ]

Thankyou Ghengis

GA

In the time honoured tradition of the internet, whilst looking for something else, I just found: -
http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/ftintro/

Which is a rather nicely presented introduction to FW flight test techniques published by NASA Dryden.

G