| Abstract | The National Research Council’s Flight Research Laboratory has collaborated with Transport Canada and Look North to provide guidance, analysis, and recommendations regarding field trials of developmental Detect and Avoid technologies by three Canadian companies.
The systems employed in these trials are considered to be developmental as opposed to operational. The objectives of the testing were primarily to:
1. Inform system modelling activities such that the simulation can leverage the flight test data and estimate the system’s performance under different circumstances
2. Assess the critical issues as relevant to the JARUS SORA process identified by Transport Canada
3. Identify and report on system deficiencies
4. Report on reliability
5. Assess whether the system is ready for operational test and evaluation
6. Assess the technical risk and evaluate the compliance with the specifications in respect to operational requirements
7. Assess human factors and identify limiting factors where possible
8. Establish a risk managed flight test planning philosophy that may be used by future DAA system developers, and will inform standards development (e.g. the ASTM’s Test Guide)
This report describes the evolution of the flight test plans, custom instrumentation to provide intruder ‘truth data’, analysis techniques, as well as preliminary analysis of test results. |
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