Rotary Wing Flight Test Lessons Learned
 

The following is from Allen Peterson, and is pretty self-explantory. Reply to Allen directly at the email at the bottom if interested.
Shawn

Greetings Fellow Rotary Wing XPs! I hope this note finds all of you well.
As some of you may have heard, I volunteered to head up the Rotary Wing
section of SETPs updated/revised Handbook for Critical and Exploratory
Flight Testing. The current plan has four primary rotary wing efforts 1)
the rotary wing chapter itself (mostly lessons learned and a reference
guide as there is little need to rehash TPS manuals, risk tables, etc), 2)
several appendices to the rotary wing chapter that you don't find in a TPS
manual such as snow and icing testing, external loads testing, chase
techniques, ADS-33?? etc., 3) a rotary wing specific subchapter to each of
the applicable handbook chapters (such as first flight, structural loads,
engine and airstart, carrier suitability, stores separation, TFTA,
synthetic vision, flight controls, escape systems) that addresses test
techniques and lessons learned that are different or unique to rotary wing
testing, and finally 4) the general rotary wing flight test lessons
learned. As such I am soliciting help on two levels and hope that each of
you can provide me some Lessons Learned help (level one) and that some of
you may be interested in taking on some portion of the manual. Please read
on and consider helping if you can.

Level One - Lessons Learned: I would appreciate it if each of you would
provide me with you top one or two (or three...) lessons learned from your
rotary wing critical and exploratory flight test experience. While I know
there are many great "systems testing" lessons learned out there the
committee wants to keep it more "airworthiness" oriented due to the
handbook title, however, if in doubt please send it and we'll worry about
the fit. We'll compile the lessons learned and include them in some form
in the handbook.

Level Two - Handbook Help: If anyone is interested in an appendix to the
handbook or a rotary wing sub-chapter to one of the main chapters then
please contact me and we'll get you involved.

The handbook will only be as good as we make it. Please join in at some
level and if you know another rote XP who isn't on the distro (and there
are many) be pass it on to them because I don't have everyone's e-mail.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you. AL

Dr. Allen L. (AL) Peterson
Director of UAV Programs
Sierra Nevada Corporation
444 Salomon Circle
Sparks, NV 89434-9651
775-331-0222 ext 210
[email protected]