Engineering Pilot Blog

Feb 22

Landing caveats – Considerations on how to get on the ground safely.

The “softness of touchdown” or passenger’s applause are certainly NOT valid rating scales for the quality of a landing. In fact, a good a...

Aircraft-Pilot Coupling – Understanding why and how it happens.

Andreas

Jan 19

Aircraft-Pilot Coupling – Understanding why and how it happens.

The topic of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling (APC) has historically been referred to as “pilot-induced oscillation” or “pilot-involved oscillatio...

Andreas

Dec 1, 2020

A “new spin” on spins

EASA and FAA have significantly modified the stall-spin requirements for part 23 aircraft during the recent re-write of CS/FAR23. The “sp...

Andreas

Oct 5, 2020

AMDAR – the unknown giant

The airborne communication domain is currently subject to a significant re-design and very interesting applications are on the horizon (s...

Andreas

Aug 26, 2020

Maneuvering effects

When an aircraft performs turns, pull-up’s or push-over’s, many things are different from the “straight-and-level” regime. Engineers worr...

Andreas

Jul 4, 2020

How to climb - and why...

This article deals with the flight segment after the takeoff phase until reaching the cruise altitude.

Accident case study: Misleading attitude

Andreas

May 1, 2020

Accident case study: Misleading attitude

The mishap aircraft was a cargo version of the Bombardier CRJ series on a routine cargo flight from Oslo/Gardermoen Airport (ENGM) to Tromsø

Andreas

Mar 20, 2020

Successfully navigating RF legs

A short article merging airworthiness requirements with operational procedures to enable flight crews to cope with RF legs.

Andreas

Jan 5, 2020

It is about time…

If you are involved in commercial air transport, it might be a good idea to get used to the terms RBT, RTA, CTA and TBO...

Andreas

Oct 8, 2019

Getting to the right place

This post is all about getting navigation data from the "books" to the aircraft in order to successfully navigate the globe...

Lost in space - How does aviation cope with a GPS outage?

Andreas

Aug 14, 2019

Lost in space - How does aviation cope with a GPS outage?

The recent outage of GALILEO has clearly demonstrated that any Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) can - from one second to the oth...

Andreas

May 16, 2019

Climb requirements

Understanding aircraft climb requirements can be a challenge, as this is one of the areas where the world of engineers blends with the wo...

Andreas

Mar 6, 2019

The alpha-beta trap

As pilots we have to ensure many things, but in particular we have to ensure the proper attitude (our own and the one of the aircraft we ...

Andreas

Jan 9, 2019

The right mix

Long gone are the days, where a navigator was tasked to determine the aircraft position using multiple sources and then bring the steerin...

Andreas

Nov 24, 2018

Secrets of stability: Cm-alpha

If you ask an aerospace engineer, what the fundamental requirement for static longitudinal stability of an airplane is, he or she will te...

Andreas

Nov 4, 2018

Future communication

Even in today’s “performance-based world” the underlying technology of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) remains crucial, ...

Andreas

Oct 15, 2018

C* - An unknown star

C* (pronounced „C-Star“), is one of the dominant digital flight control laws for Fly-By-Wire (FBW) transport aircraft. It has its roots i...

Andreas

Oct 2, 2018

A magnetic disorder

When a 200-million-dollar passenger jet approaches a major airport somewhere on this planet and receives some directions from air traffic...

Andreas

Sep 23, 2018

A new approach

It used to be simple: There were „non-precision“ and „precision“ approaches. But things have changed quite a bit. The advent of performan...

Andreas

Sep 13, 2018

Tight turns

This post covers some basic aspects about optimizing turn performance. While we perform turns on a daily basis, they do not necessary get...

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