To carry out
instrumentation of aircraft and engine in order to acquire data during aircraft
testing on ground and during flight testing
To
setup on board and ground facilities for telemetry for data acquired on
aircraft
To
setup ground facilities for real time and offline data analysis
To
plan and execute the program of flight testing of LCA prototypes
To
ensure safety in flying the prototype aircraft
Team
PD [FT]
Air Cmde Rohit Varma
Administrative
Setup/Office Setup
Project
Co-ordinators and Projects
No
Co-ordinator
Project/Activities
1.
Wg Cdr (Retd) PK Raveendran (GD[FT])
2.
Group
Captain
N.Harish
3.
Captain
JA.
Maolankar
4.
Wg
Cdr
N.Tiwari
5.
Wg
Cdr
RR.
Tyagi
5.
Wg
Cdr
M.
Prabhu
6.
Wg
Cdr
RK.
Dash
Achievements
LCA
TD1 and TD2 instrumented
Ground
facilities for telemetry established
Ground
Facilities for real time and off time data analysis established
Planning
for first block of flight completed
Interaction
with designers to ensure safety of aircraft during flying has been completed
All necessary documents in the areas of
Flight
test planning
Data
analysis
Emergency
drills
Monitoring
drills have been released
Future Plan
To
undertake flight testing of all prototypes of LCA and complete the flight
testing leading to technology demonstration of LCA in 220 flights and initial
operational clearance in 2000 flights
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@ 2001-2003, Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore
Aeronautical Development Agency, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India, P.B.No:
1718, Vimanapura Post, Bangalore 560017, India
