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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...

 

Robust real-time data monitoring and analysis systems to support flight testing on-site, anywhere in the world...

Flight test data acquisition & insturmentationOver the course of many flight test programs, Baker Aviation Services has developed a cost effective ruggedized data acquisition system that provides robust real-time data monitoring and data analysis capabilities in a simple-to-install and easy-to-use PC-based platform - customized for reliable performance in the harsh flight test environment.

Using COTS hardware and software enables us to respond rapidly to the need for spare parts and technical support.  We maintain a supply of spare parts on-site for immediate servicing and an entire range of transducers, sensors and probes are available for immediate application to your flight test data collection needs.

Announcing...

Baker Aviation Services is excited to be named an authorized distributor of SpaceAge Control's extensive line of world class air data products...

Swivel-head air data boom  Static trailing cones for airspeed & altitude position error determination  Miniature and full-size angle of attack and sideslip vanes

  • Unlimited FREE technical and installation support of SpaceAge Control air data products for flight test applications;
  • Sales of SpaceAge Control's industry-leading air data products at competitive rates;
  • Leasing/rental of select SpaceAge Control air data products.

We feel that the combination of our proven track record in air data measurement and data analysis and SpaceAge Control's high quality products -- which we use ourselves day in and day out -- creates a powerful team to provide the flight test industry with cutting edge air data measurement solutions and unbeatable product support.

Contact us today for your free application consultation!

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Here are just a few of the things that we have available in house to support flight testing on site, anywhere in the world:

  • Air data booms (straight nose and swivel-head)
  • Static trailing cones
  • Sensitive aircraft instruments - airspeed indicators that read in increments of 1 knot or 1 mph, calibrated g-meters
  • Hand-held stick force gauges
  • High-end GPS receivers and antennas for precise aircraft positioning - measuring takeoff distances, landing distances, accelerate-stop distances, braking performance, Vmcg runway centerline deviation, airspeed and altitude position errors
  • Position transducers - sting potentiometers, rotary potentiometers, LVDTs, RVDTs
  • Pressure transducers
  • Flowmeters
  • Temperature sensors - thermocouple wire/probes/assemblies, RTD probes, thermistors, glass bulb thermometers
  • Load cells, force transducers, torque sensors
  • Portable weather stations - wind speed/direction, outside air temperature, relative humidity
  • Video recording equipment
  • Signal conditioners
  • Data acquisition systems and data loggers

Contact us today to find out how we can help you satisfy your flight test data collection and analysis needs.

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