The SFTE EC Symposium 2013 - Invitation and Registration

The 24^th SFTE European Chapter Symposium will be held at DLR, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, premises in Braunschweig, Germany, from the 11^th to the 13^th of June 2013.

Please read all about the symposium in the
Symposium Brochure.

Online registration to the symposium.
To encuorage early registration for planning purposes there will be a late registration fee applied 1st May or later.

Full programme for the technical sessions will soon be announced when the paper selection is finalized.
The SFTE EC Symposium 2013 - Invitation and Information Brochure

The symposium theme is "Defeating Murphy’s Law in Flight Test”.

In flight test sometimes the most unlikely things happen. Who would have known that a simple series of pitot static tests would have to be stalled twice in two consecutive years because of volcano eruptions and that the pitot statics aircraft – DLR’s Falcon 20 - would be known today as Volcano Ash Hunter. But it does not require a volcano - sometimes it’s just the regular stuff like the weather, technical problems, the technician who goes skiing and breaks his leg the day before the campaign or request for visit forms which magically vanish. It can be the high risk testing which works out just fine and at the very moment when everyone thinks you’re done something completely unrelated to the test goes wrong.

For flight testers, “lesson’s learned” are the most important outcome of flight test next to its primary test objective. It helps us to make the next test even safer than the one before or to make it happen at all in spite of Murphy’s law. We’d like to hear
your flight test stories, what you learned and how you safely prepare for the unknown and unexpected that always awaits us.

Papers
Deadline for abstracts: 3^rd March 2013
Notification to authors before: 3^rd April 2013
Deadline for submission of papers: 28^th April 2013

Registration
Registration must be completed in advance. The online registration will soon be available here.

Please find all the information you need in the
Symposium Brochure.
The SFTE EC Symposium 2013 - Announcement and Call for Papers

The 24^th SFTE European Chapter Symposium will be held at DLR, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, premises in Braunschweig, Germany, from the 11^th to the 13^th of June 2013.

Defeating Murphy’s Law in Flight Test
In flight test sometimes the most unlikely things happen. Who would have known that a simple series of pitot static tests would have to be stalled twice in two consecutive years because of volcano eruptions and that the pitot statics aircraft – DLR’s Falcon 20 - would be known today as Volcano Ash Hunter.

But it does not require a volcano - sometimes it’s just the regular stuff like the weather, technical problems, the technician who goes skiing and breaks his leg the day before the campaign or request for visit forms which magically vanish. It can be the high risk testing which works out just fine and at the very moment when everyone thinks you’re done something completely unrelated to the test goes wrong.

For flight testers, “lesson’s learned” are the most important outcome of flight test next to its primary test objective. It helps us to make the next test even safer than the one before or to make it happen at all in spite of Murphy’s law. We’d like to hear your flight test stories, what you learned and how you safely prepare for the unknown and unexpected that always awaits us.

Deadline for abstracts: 3^rd March 2013
Notification to authors before: 3^rd April 2013
Deadline for submission of papers: 28^th April 2013

Papers reflecting the symposium theme will be favoured in the selection of papers.
Please submit an abstract of your paper (not more than one page) to:

...or...
Mail: Ina Niewind
DLR c/o WTD 61-200
85077 Manching
Germany

Authors whose papers have been accepted will be invited to hand in the full paper before the deadline for submission and to present the paper during the symposium. The papers will be distributed on digital media at the symposium.

We look forward to hear from you!

This information is also available in the Call for Papers flyer.
Summary of the 23th SFTE EC Annual symposium

Amsterdam, Netherlands (2012-06-11/13)

Written by Paul Koks

The 23nd SFTE-EC Annual Symposium took place from June 11 through 13 at the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR in Amsterdam focused on “Flight Testing”. In those three days the NLR and NVvL (The Netherlands Association of Aeronautical Engineers) hosted the 23rd symposium of the European Chapter of the Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE EC). The Theme of the symposium was ‘Finding the edge, setting the limits’ thus referring to the ongoing exploration of boundaries during test flights.

The opening of the symposium was performed by Mr. Fred Abbink, former General Director of NLR and president of the NVvL, with a very enthusiastic speech reflecting on a century of aviation in the Netherlands. The organization was very pleased to announce two keynote speakers. Mr. William 'Bill' Coutts (F-35 Flight Test Support & Verification deputy) from Lockheed delivered the first keynote speech focusing on the F-35 programme and Lt-Col. Tjebbe 'Speedy' Haringa (Chief Test Pilot Royal Netherlands Air Force) followed addressing to topic of decline of experience opportunities for young engineers.

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The SFTE EC Symposium 2012 - Programme and Registration Information

The 23rd SFTE European Chapter Symposium will be held at National Aerospace Laboratory NLR premises in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 11th to the 13th of June 2012. The local organization of the symposium is in the hands of the Netherlands Association of Aeronautical Engineers NVvL and National Aerospace Laboratory NLR.

The programme for the SFTE EC Symposium 2012 is now available: Symposium Programme

General information about the symposium: Symposium Brochure

Online registration to the symposium

As an option to the online registration a manual registration by form and bank transfer is available: Registration Form