Papers from the SFTE EC Symposium 2022


Papers from the 33th Annual SFTE EC Symposium are now available on the Papers section.

The SFTE EC Symposium 2022 - Schedule

We are happy to invite you to the 33rdAnnual Symposium of the SFTE European Chapter, 10 - 12 May 2022.

Registration is open!

Please find detailed information about available ticket options at https://lnkd.in/gGqVSmKC .
Find the ticket shop at https://lnkd.in/gveczgaq . There is an early-bird discount when booking before 10 April 2022, and as a student you get even better conditions!

To get to your full attendance you need to follow a build-up-approach:

1a) As a member of the Society of Flight Test Engineers, be sure to select 2 single tickets named "ettc2022 + SFTE 2022 Delegate 1-day EST/SFTE" from "shop group 3".
1b) If you are not a member of SFTE or EST, select 2 tickets named "ettc2022 + SFTE 2022 Delegate 1-day".
2) Select 2x "Lunch 1 day".

This is for the two days (10+11 May 2022) at Nuremberg.

3) Additionally, please indicate if you are interested in participating the technical tour on 12 May 2022 (subject to confirmation by host company and COVID restrictions).
4) The Bavarian Dinner on 11 May 2022 is a special event you definitely should not miss!

See you soon at Nuremberg!

The symposium schedule:

Day 1 – 10 May 2022, Nuremberg Exhibition Center
Symposium Opening, 10 May 2022
1000-1230 Meeting opening and Keynotes (3 Speeches) SFTE / ettc / Martin Gestwa SFTE EC / ettc / DLR, Germany
Lunch
Session 1 – Measure it right
1330-1400 PRESENTATION CANCELLED DUE TO COVID TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS - ALTERNATIVE UNDER REVIEW
1400-1430 Catalyst Flight Test Bed, a de-risking vehicle for a new generation of turboprops Alessandro Ramazzotti Beechcraft Berlin Aviation
1430-1500 Towards optical real-time proprotor flapping measurements – recent developments within the FLAPsense project Fritz Boden DLR Göttingen
1500-1530 Data Acquisition Systems for Future Generation Aircraft: Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics based Data Acquisition Systems Senthil Kumar Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment India
Coffee Break
Session 2 – Give me some Fuel
1600-1630 simulator testing of semi-automated control concepts for the receiver aircraft during aerial refueling Philipp Weber, Philipp Link DLR Manching, Germany
1630-1700 Design and Assessment of Fighter Pilot Assistance Systems for Air-to-Air Refuelling with Probe-and-Drogue-Equipment Lars Wandrey, Johanna Lachmann, Julia Ament DLR Manching, Germany
1700-1730 Helicopter Aerial Refuelling: A400M Challenges César González Gómez Airbus Defence and Space, Getafe, Spain
Technical Session Closing – Day 1
Camp Fire Session, 10 May 2022, 1930 - „Alte Küch’n“, Albrecht-Dürer-Str. 3, 90403 Nürnberg
Day 2 – 11 May 2022, Nuremberg Exhibition Center
Session 3 – It‘s not a Game
0930-1000 Gerard Temme Frelance Test Pilot
1000-1030 Use of an Engineering Simulator to Inform Design and Flight Test Planning of a Novel Hybrid Aircraft Warwick Bradfield, Nathanael West Hybrid Air Vehicles, UK
Coffee Break
Session 4 – Rotating to lift
1100-1130 Contactless power and data transfer to and from rotating aircraft parts applied to a tilt rotor aircraft Carlo Rens NLR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1130-1200 Engine Back-up System in flight test campaigns: a new approach to the height-velocity diagram demonstration. Setareh Taheri
Alain Delavet
Airbus Helicopters, Marignane, France
1200-1230 Pipistrel: A build-up approach to the testing of novel technology in aviation Marco Rizzato Pipistrel Vertical Solutions, Slovenia
Lunch
Session 5 – Accept it or not – it’s flying on its own
1330-1400 Simulation Based Noise Modeling & Public Acceptance of UAM Aircraft Gokul Srinivasan robots.expert
1400-1430 Risk management for the integration of a large UAS for the first time into the European Airspace. Reiner Exner Euro Flight Test
1430-1500 A data-driven approach towards a detailed understanding of eVTOL operational conditions Jan Niklas Burgkart unisphere
1500-1530 Unmanned aerial system’s Handling and Flying Qualities flight test training at International Test Pilots School Joao Falcao ITPS Canada Inc.
Technical Session Closing – Day 2
Coffee Break
Annual Business Meeting
1600-1730 Best Paper Award
SFTE EC Business Meeting
SFTE EC
Bavarian Evening, 11 May 2022, 1900 (details to follow)
Day 3 – 12 May 2022, Airbus Defence and Space, Manching
Transfer Manching
0900 Bus starts at Nuremberg Exhibition Center
Technical Tour Part 1
1030-1130 Flight Test Manching Airbus Defence and Space, Test Center
1130-1230 Future Projects
Lunch
Technical Tour Part 2
1330-1530 Airbus Drone Center René Waldheuer Airbus Defence and Space, Drone Center
Transfer Nuremberg
1530 Transfer back to Nuremberg / Individual Return Trip intermediate bus stops:
Ingolstadt main train station
Nuremberg Exhibition Center
Nuremberg airport

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In memoriam Yves Saint Upéry

In memoriam Yves Saint Upéry
Secretary BoD SFTE EC

It is with unbelieve that we received the sad news that on January 4, 2022 our board member Yves Saint Upéry passed away losing the battle against illness. Yves was a respected, dedicated and motivated colleague and friend. He was the secretary of the SFTE European Chapter board since 2019 and a valued member of the society. After his early retirement from Airbus, on request of the board he continued in his position as secretary working for the society preparing for the next symposium.

During his professional career at Airbus he served in several roles in the company for more than 35 years. In his last active role as Senior Expert, he was leading the flight test expert community and supported many colleagues in their development.

We will keep in our memories the fact he was living flight test values day-by-day, always being positive and constructive with a smile on his face. Many colleagues remember how happy he was as the attached picture was taken. He will be missed.

Join me in expressing our condolences, deep sympathy and thoughts to his family at this sad time.

Best regards,
Paul Koks
President SFTE EC

PDF version of this In Memoriam

The SFTE EC Symposium 2022 - Call for Papers


Dear Members of SFTE European Chapter,

Your Board Members have been working on and propose you a 33rd symposium on May 10-12th in Nürnberg, which will be an in-person event.

We will monitor the evolution of COVID-19 pandemic early 2022, and we might change the plan, as necessary.

Nevertheless, you can find more details in the Call for Papers for the symposium, whose theme will be:
How to prepare Flight Testing of New Technologies entering aircraft development

Call for Papers Flyer

The due date for the abstracts proposal is February 11th (updated), and abstracts shall be submitted to 2022.symposium@sfte-ec.org

The SFTE EC symposium will be held in parallel of ettc 2022, and the 2 events will share some common sessions.

We hope you can propose papers for our 33rd SFTE EC symposium, and we wish you a safe and nice end of year season.

With our best regards,
Yves Saint-Upery
Secretary of SFTE European Chapter

32nd SFTE EC virtual symposium

Virtual Symposium (2021-09-15/16)
Written by Paul Koks

The continuous COVID-19 situation made the BoD decide to go virtual for the second time since the EC was established in 1987. This webinar event was held on September 15 and 16 including a key note address delivered by Mr. Rudolf Bischoff FTE and Senior Expert for Airborne Systems Integration, Test & Verification at Airbus D&S Germany. His topic of choice was the theme of the presentation “Driving down the cost of flight testing without reducing safety margins”.

SFTE EC Youtube Channel


Dear Members of SFTE European Chapter,

Below are links to the SFTE EC Youtube channel and a playlist for the 2021 symposium recordings.

SFTE EC Youtube Channel

2021 Symposium recordings playlist

The SFTE EC Symposium 2021 - Web Live Event


Dear Members of SFTE European Chapter,

Your Board Members are happy to invite You to our 32nd symposium on September 15th and 16th, in the form of a Web Live event.

The theme of the Symposium is Driving down the cost of flight testing without reducing safety margins.

Schedule:

Symposium Opening, 15 September 2021
1100-1115 Establish connections, Meeting opening SFTE EC
1115-1155 Keynote Rudolf Bischoff Airbus Defence and Space, Germany
Session 1 - Digitization, 15 September 2021
1200-1225 Digitalization in flight testing as cost-saving factor Regine Pattermann RS Flight Systems GmbH
1230-1255 Development of ML models with Python for flight test optimisation Wing Commander RR
Senthil Kumar
Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment, India
1300-1325 How to reduce the flight testing cost, Focus on military aircrafts re-testing Leyre Cabrera Blanco Airbus Defence and Space, Spain
Jesualdo Martinez Award – 15 September 2021
1400-1415 Jesualdo Martinez Award Ceremony SFTE EC
Session 2 – Measurement Improvements, 15 September 2021
1420-1445 Health Monitoring in Final Assembly Line Henning Stöfen + more Airbus Operations, Germany
1450-1515 CS2 FLAPsense Frits Boden + more DLR, Germany
1530 Closing Day 1 Paul Koks SFTE EC
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Opening Day 2, 16 September 2021
1100-1115 Establish connections, opening Day 2 SFTE EC
1120-1155 Campfire Session David Gibbings SFTE Fellow, Winner of the Kelly Johnson Award
Session 3 – Collaboration and Data Analysis, 16 September 2021
11200-1225 Time Series Analysis Methods for Improved Flight Test Data Analysis Daniel Limia Perez, + more Capgemini Engineering
1230-1255 C130 Reference Jumps. Airbus DS-France-Belgium Cooperation Israel López Herreros Airbus Defence and Space, Spain
Session 4 - 16 September 2021 – Test Methods
1330-1355 Alternative procedure to verify the HV diagram after external installations on helicopters Manuela Battipede + more Politecnico di Torino, Italy
1400-1425 An alternative approach for determining the Position Error Corrections (PEC) in static pressure measurement at altitude Thomas Dumoulin + more Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre, NLR
The Netherlands
1430-1455 Implementing a New Telemetry Architecture into a Fighter Type Aircraft Heiko Körtzel + more Airbus Defence and Space, Germany
1500 Closing Technical Sessions Paul Koks SFTE EC
Annual Business Meeting & Symposium Closing
1500-1545 Best Paper Award
SFTE EC Business Meeting, Board Election
SFTE EC
1550 Closing words Paul Koks SFTE EC

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How to attend will be mailed to members of the SFTE European Chapter.

Flight Test Safety Workshop 2021

THE FLIGHT TEST SAFETY COMMITTEE
invites all flight test professionals to join us in London for the 2021 Flight Test Safety Workshop at the
Royal Air Force Club in London’s famous district of Mayfair. As the FTSW was postponed from 2020
due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the workshop’s theme still stands:
IMPROVING FLIGHT TEST SAFETY THROUGH ENHANCED SAFETY RISK MANAGEMENT

European FTS Workshop 12-14 October 2021

Find more details in the
Flight Test Safety Workshop Flyer

The SFTE EC Symposium 2021 - Call for Papers


Dear Members of SFTE European Chapter,

Your Board Members are happy to propose our 32nd symposium on September 15th, in the form of a Web Live event.

The theme of the Symposium will be Driving down the cost of flight testing without reducing safety margins.

Find more details in the
Call for Papers Flyer

The due date for the abstracts proposal is June 1st, and abstracts shall be submitted to 2021.symposium@sfte-ec.org

Abstract submission: June 1th, 2021
Abstract selection: June 30th, 2021
Final paper submission: August 15th, 2021

We will be happy to meet you again on September 15th, and we wish you to keep safe.

With our best regards,
Yves Saint-Upery
Secretary of SFTE European Chapter

SFTE European Chapter - JM Award 2021 - Proposal for Candidates

Dear Members of SFTE European Chapter,

Your Board Members are happy to launch the 2nd Jesualdo Martinez Award.

The first JM Award was delivered during the 30th SFTE EC symposium in 2019, in memory of Jesualdo Martinez who perished in 2015 during an A400M flight test in Seville.

Please, find the detailed Jesualdo Martinez Award Notice here.

You can propose candidates for the 2nd Jesualdo Martinez Award at presidenteurope@sfte-ec.org. Deadline for proposals is 30th of June.

The 2nd Jesualdo Martinez Award will be delivered during the 32nd SFTE-EC Symposium, September 15th.

We hope to see you again soon, and we wish you good health.

With our best regards,

Yves Saint-Upéry
Secretary of SFTE European Chapter

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