Operational Test and Evaluation Course

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Fixed Wing
Rotary Wing
53 Lecture Hour(s)
4 Flight Hour(s)
4 Simulation Hour(s)
3 Week(s)
Minimum of 2 Aircraft Types Flown

This course provides a solid grounding in the principles of flight test, coupled to a practical exposure to the key concepts of Operational Test & Evaluation (OT&E) and its associated processes. The course focuses on explaining the philosophy and discipline of OT&E and introduces key flight test concepts including performance, stability and control, handling qualities and systems flight tests. Key OT&E concepts of maintainability and reliability, cockpit ergonomics and assessment, and workload are also covered and discussed in detail.

Admission:
No minimum admission requirements. Candidates should preferably be experienced operational pilots or graduate engineers with military or industry experience. Requires 2 or 4 students.

Topics:

  • Airworthiness Overview
  • Support & Acquisition
  • Planning COIs/MOEs/MOPs
  • Test Planning & Reporting
  • Human Factors
  • Anthropometrics & Ergonomics
  • Cockpit/Cabin/Crew Station
  • ALSE – Egress / Escape Testing 9. DT&E and OT&E Rating Scales
  • RPAS
  • Aircrew Workload
  • Autopilots
  • Radar Testing
  • DFCS Testing
  • Display and EFIS Testing
  • RPAS OT&E

Course Start Dates:
17 February 2025
7 April 2025
21 July 2025
22 September 2025
27 October 2025


Note: If you are based in Canada, please contact: info@ITPSCanada.com for pricing including HST

Duration: 3 weeks

The new facility features a 27,000 sq.ft. hangar, big enough to house ITPS’s expanding fleet of aircraft. The administration and classroom building have been extended by 15,000 square feet and feature six additional classrooms, a simulator centre, a state of the art Telemetry Room, additional student facilities and change rooms. The new building features additional briefing rooms, a flight crew ready room and much enlarged canteen area.

ITPS school and hangar facility

CYXU is a modern regional airport 5 nm north east of the city of London, Ontario. The airport is an international gateway airport with direct flights from Chicago and Detroit and Immigration and Customs facilities. It is as of 2009 the 20th busiest airport in Canada, which makes for efficient school operations with little to no delays due to traffic. The airport is south of Toronto and outside the Toronto (CYYZ) FIR and has close access to large sections of Class E and G airspace minimizing transit times for the execution of flight exercises which can be flown up to FL180 on a VFR flight plan but are Controlled VFR (CVFR) with flight control by Toronto Center above 12000 feet. Two dedicated test areas Delta and Juliet a low altitude one to 12000 and a high altitude one over Lake Huron, up to FL350, north west of London may be used by the school under an agreement with NAV Canada, the Canadian Air Traffic Control Authority. The school therefore enjoys a very favourable air traffic environment for its training operations.

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The Belgian Defense has been training test pilots at ITPS on a regular basis since 2004. The quality of training is essential to the Belgian Defense as our test pilots are expected to undertake the whole spectrum of flight testing across the Defense aircraft and helicopter fleet. The training at ITPS met our requirements and our test pilots have proven very competent in national or multinational test programs.

Philippe Goffin, Belgian Defense

Leonardo Helicopters has been collaborating with the International Test Pilots School since 2017 and a number of our flight test engineers have attended training courses in Canada. As the Head of Flight Test, I have been very satisfied with the results and the quality of the training provided by ITPS.

Giuseppe Afruni, Leonardo Helicopters

The training provided by ITPS was essential in preparing me for a career in civil aircraft flight testing. ITPS provided training of exceptional quality by world-class experts. It fully prepared me with the necessary fundamental skills to succeed as a flight test engineer.

Nunzio Caccavo, ITPS 2011 Graduate

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