CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY SHORT COURSE

Cranfield University in conjunction with The Royal Aeronautical Society is pleased to invite you…

Introduction to Flight Simulation

26 – 30 October 2009

I would like to draw your attention to the 2009 one week short course “Introduction to Flight Simulation” which will take place at Cranfield University from 26-30 October 2009.

Please consider sending your staff to this course and please also circulate this information widely to anyone else you think may be interested.

Course Overview

Flight simulation technology plays a major role in modern aviation from initial aircraft design through development, build, and production and then in training aircrew and ground crew to fly and maintain the aircraft. The qualities of the higher levels of flight simulators for training, using realistic crew stations and controls, and with sophisticated modelling and cueing, are such that already-experienced airline pilots convert to new aircraft types solely through simulator training, the so-called “Zero Flight Time” system that has been in use worldwide since 1982. In the civil world, the term “Full Flight Simulator” is used for these devices; the military equivalent being the Full Mission Simulator with the addition of simulation of weapons, air refuelling and other military features.

Objectives

This introductory course, fully international in scope, aims:

- to provide a structured and compact introduction to modern flight simulation technology

- to describe the application of flight simulators in civil and military training

- to address non-technical aspects of flight simulation, including regulatory requirements and standards, financing and management

Course lectures are augmented with hands-on sessions on the Cranfield University research flight simulator and a visit to a major flight simulator training facility.

For further information please click here:

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/shortcourses/training/flight-simulation.html