Last week, we kept on flying on studying. Nothing really new, we continued doing our turn performance, level acceleration and sawtooth climbs to prepare for our performance evaluation oral reports. The pilos had a demo on how to do aeromodelling, which involves doing split-S (start inverted and level, and pull toward the ground to increase g's while keeping the Mach number constant), Roller-Coaster (speaks for itself, push, pull, up, and down, ....) or wind-up turns. We also had a brief on the coming photo and safety chase. They are going to be very intersting flights, but very demanding as well.
On academics, we had a break from aeronautics with T&E (test and evaluation, or everything you may want to know about the acquisition programs in the DoD), and we started " analog flight control system". Bode plots, root locus, gain margin and open loop transfer functions were the main subjects of the week.
Next week, we will have a brief for the oncoming practice checkrides, finish Analog FCS and move on to digital FCS, and start the cruise data rides. The first teams will also have to turn in the human factor cockpit evaluation reports.
P.S : sorry for the late post.
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