PPRuNe Forums - Pilots required for Degree Project Interviews!

Hello Gentleman!

My name is Andrew and I'm a second year student studying Aircraft Engineering and engaged on my end-of-year project.

I am in the process of collecting the viewpoints of industry professionals in order to shape my own conclusions and ideas. Unfortunately for me, a stroke of bad luck has meant the two pilots who had agreed to interviews have been unable to continue through ill-health and personal reasons.

As a result, I'm in need of volunteers willing to answer a half-dozen text questions honestly and frankly. Full credit will be given in the final report which I can make available to you for your consideration.

You can find my an outline of my project here.

The only prerequisites I would ask of anyone willing to help me out is that you fly turbine-powered aircraft (passenger or cargo, military or commercial) and that you have had some experience with ECAMS, EICAS, EFIS or associated integrated cockpit display systems.

I'm particularly eager to get some dichotomy in my responses - Military pilots, (past or present), civilian pilots with no military experience, direct-entry pilots on airline training programmes, and those who have "Worked up" from self-funded PPLs, etc.

Your help would be very greatly appreciated. I feel as an engineer we sometimes forget that whilst we might build the plane, we don't fly it and thus I feel like the input of those that do is vital in anything aviation-related.

Thank you.