We all get asked to agree to license agreements from time to time, and if you are anything like me, you won’t bother to read all the pages of small print before installing the latest software update. In

So it’s really easy to measure heading. You just get out a compass and it will point North. Easy, eh? But, you’ve guessed it, life is never that easy. Firstly, the compass in an aircraft has to compensate

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting to the European Business Aviation Safety Conference (EBASCON) in Munich. Sadly there was no time to visit the city centre, but it was a joy to meet old friends

This blog carries on from the previous touchdown measurement and looks at how we can relate touchdown conditions to the likelihood of a runway overrun. When looking to measure the risk of a possible

For safety monitoring we are very interested to know where an aircraft touches down on the runway. There are two problems here, namely knowing where the aircraft is and when it touches the runway. In

OK, it’s really easy. You stick a thermometer out of the side of the aircraft and read what it says. Nothing could be simpler, until you fly through a cloud. I’ll take these two parts – “fly” and

In my last blog I mentioned two different ways of looking at the ability of an aircraft to stop on the runway, and here is a supplement about dimensional analysis of these measures. In dimensional analysis

I’m writing this blog after the 2nd EOFDM Forum at Cologne. A very full day of presentations covering a wide range of topics leaves me with two outstanding thoughts… Firstly, there were many measurements

Let’s talk about free beer. To quote from gnu.org, “…free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To better understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free

Welcome back after the Christmas holidays, and may I wish you a Happy New Year, wherever you may be. It’s a little bit late, but I thought I would explain how Father Christmas has been helping us to test