Mon, Jun 07, 2010
Course Covers Aircraft Design, Materials, And Performance
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's College of Aviation -
Professional Programs Department will offer a short-course in
Advanced Aircraft Accident Investigation at the University's
Prescott Campus from Aug. 2-6, 2010.
This five-day course is designed to introduce the participant to
advanced aircraft accident investigation procedures involving
design, materials, and aircraft performance. This comprehensive
course is a follow-on course for the accident investigation
management course or for an individual who has experience in
accident investigation.
Participants will analyze various mechanical and structural
factors and loads on an airplane and will be introduced to
investigating composite materials and advanced fire investigation.
Participants will also discuss aircraft crashworthiness,
survivability, and CFR emergency response procedures.
Extensive use will be made of Embry-Riddle's Robertson Crash
Laboratory, the most complete facility of its kind in the United
States. Participants will experience accident investigation
simulated scenario exercises and learn how to identify, collect,
and analyze data in the process of determining probable
cause(s).
Short-course attendees will learn how to:
- Appraise various mechanical and structural factors that produce
accidents, including design, manufacturing, and maintenance.
- Analyze typical air loads on an airplane to calculate external
design loads.
- Analyze a particular in-flight breakup to determine sequence of
failure and primary and secondary structural failure.
- Explain new structural concepts and materials such as
composites.
- Describe events and forces associated with an aircraft
accident.
- Identify the crashworthiness and survivability factors of an
aircraft accident.
- Explain the basis of airworthiness and crashworthiness from
both an investigation and a design standpoint.
- Analyze an accident from a survivability perspective and gather
the necessary evidence from the scene to carry out those
evaluations.
- Complete a fire investigation and fire-survival analysis.
- Describe the fundamentals of crash/fire/rescue techniques and
apply those techniques to an aircraft crash
scenario.
The course runs Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
provides 4.0 Continuing Education Units. The $2,000 cost
includes course materials and textbook.
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