Research on mission characteristics-based evaluation model of flight test workload

Abstract

As a product of modern industrial cutting-edge technology, a large civil aircraft needs to undergo rigorous flight test before entering the aviation market, which fully ensures the safety of aircraft and its system. This makes the aircraft meet the airworthiness standards and requirements. The flight test of civil aircraft is a complex system project, which the top-level planning throughout the flight test period has an important influence on progress control and flight test efficiency of a new type aircraft. The core content of the top-level plan is the evaluation of flight test workload with consideration of test aircraft quantity. This paper proposes a flight test workload analysis and evaluation model based on the types of test missions through the analysis of the characteristics of civil aircraft flight test mission, which provides a feasible method for quantitative evaluation of flight test workload.