As part of an ITPS Canada student project on the Jet Provost Mk.4, an evaluation flight of 1.1hr air time was assigned to the supervising FTE instructor. Instead of performing a standard qualitative evaluation gathering comments and qualitative ratings, a more flight test engineering approach was followed, targeting the flight solely towards the collection of quantitative data using basic portable test instrumentation. During the flight, a number of engineering test points were performed using traditional FTTs in order to spot-check some of the POH performance charts, determine the airplane's stability modal characteristics and verify compliance against MIL-STD-1797 paragraphs. During the post flight analysis, some unexpected deficiencies were also identified in the data. Beside the engineering data, the paper aims to present an FTE's approach of performing flight testing in an unfamiliar aircraft, the effort to maximize data gathering and also use part of the results to verify common flight test approximations taught at TPS's. Finally, the paper presents the lessons learned on test management, excitation inputs, capability of portable instrumentation and more.
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