SYMBAD : instrument in the course of aircraft flight test planning

Any flight test programme is essentially based on a flight test plan, i.e. a document agreed upon and accepted by all the parties interested in the tests, and authorised by the superior body/authorities responsible for the execution of the tests. The flight test plan determines the number of flights and flight hours indispensable to verify whether a given aircraft satisfies specified requirements. Many and various external factors may have significant and adverse effect on the execution of the flight test program according to the earlier agreed schedule. The identification of areas hazardous to the project is a very interesting and it depend of the experience of researchers. The flight test program in addition to the requirements for the equipment under test must take into account the available infrastructure, time and cost SYMBAD is the structure of artificial neural network (ANN) developed on the basis of experimentally gained data from the military aircraft testing. These tests were done in Aircraft Institute of Technology for the many years and for the different type of aircrafts. Potential usage of this programme for the managing of aircraft prototypes testing has been formulated as well. This case is presented in this article. Presented the program will be improved based on the knowledge of researchers. The Sindbad’s structure can be easily adjusted depending on the type of test equipment, e.g. for unmanned air systems.