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(NEW) Single Receiver GPS Precise Positioning (NEW)

How would you like it if someone could step onto your airplane with a simple hand-held device and -- in less than 2 hours -- produce high precision, professional publishing quality takeoff and landing performance charts for your flight manual supplement or pilot operating handbook?

Here's how it can be done...

For the last decade, differential GPS has been the flight test standard for measuring takeoff and landing distances.  This is how the major aircraft manufacturers do it, but it has always been hampered by the requirement for setting up a base station at a known, surveyed position and installing complicated, expensive and sometimes unreliable telemetry equipment on your airplane.

Approved by the Airworthiness Authorities in 2004 for collecting aircraft position data for certification, we are now offering a low cost single receiver GPS package that is capable of achieving centimeter to decimeter accuracy in both horizontal and vertical position.

Applications include:

  • Takeoff performance
  • Landing performance
  • Braking performance
  • Vmcg runway centerline deviation
  • Ground and in-flight position error determination
  • RVSM

This solution completely eliminates the requirement for a base station and expensive post-processing software.

There is no telemetry requirement and test repeats due to telemetry dropouts are a thing of the past.

The system employs a receiver with data logging capability in one package with minimal equipment installation requirements -- so we can literally show up at your site, walk onto the airplane and begin testing immediately.

Ultra-low cost is achieved by utilizing the existing publicly available GPS infrastructure and open-source software.

And the best thing is -- we can do it for you OR show you how to do it yourself in the fastest time and at the least expense possible.

Click here to find out more...

 

About Baker Aviation Services


Engineering flight test excellence

Baker Aviation Services, LLC was established in 2003 to meet the need for a consistent source of consultant flight test engineering expertise in the areas of airplane performance, flight characteristics, systems performance, and acoustics.

Baker Aviation Services can provide its customized flight test services, instrumentation and data acquisition support, and engineering data analysis services on site, anywhere in the world, to support both new and modified aircraft certification programs and specialized flight test investigations.  With over 45 years of in-house fixed wing flight test experience on over 130 different aircraft types since 1969 -- from single engine light aircraft to multi-engine jet transports -- we are recognized as a world leader in certification flight test services.

Baker Aviation Services engineers are flight test experts.  We specialize in aircraft performance, flight characteristics, handling qualities, and stability and control flight testing of modified and special missions aircraft, seaplanes, amphibians, and fire fighting aircraft -- literally any civil aircraft type -- and have significant experience with aircraft systems development, test, and evaluation.  In 2004, we added FAR 36 Appendix G noise certification to our capabilities and are now offering small and propeller driven airplane noise level measurement, test planning, test witnessing, data analysis, and reporting to our already-extensive capabilities.

We offer an easy-to-install and simple-to-operate ruggedized digital data acquisition system that be customized to the data acquisition requirements of any FAR 23 or FAR 25 certification flight test program.  Designed to provide a rapid turn-around of data at any remote site, this capability gives us tremendous flexibility in supporting the instrumentation needs of any flight test program.

We maintain a stock of calibrated sensitive aircraft instruments, transducers, sensors, probes, air data booms, portable weather stations, and position measuring equipment to support our customers' requirements for any imaginable instrumentation component.

In the civil aircraft certification flight test business for 35 years, we have built a huge network of industry, engineering specialist, and airworthiness authority contacts.  Our "extended team" can support virtually any development, certification, or research flight test activity.

Known for our dedicated and friendly customer support, rapid service, thorough and accurate data analysis capabilities, and professional approach to certification flight testing, Baker Aviation Services is your choice for aircraft test and evaluation.  Whether you need our services for one or two minor aspects of your program or require a complete turnkey flight test program management package, contact us today -- we can customize our support, engineering analysis, and hardware services to meet YOUR budget and specific needs.

Sincerely,

Rick Baker, Owner and Flight Test Engineer

Phone: 785-331-4422

Email: rick @ bakerav.com

 

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