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UTSI Flight Systems Laboratory

The UTSI Flight Systems Laboratory provides students the capability to assemble and test flight instruments for flight test and airborne science research. The laboratory contains 6 workbenches, each of which is equipped with a National Instruments Universal Serial Bus (USB) based data acquisition system with a PC. All of the PCs run LabVIEW for data acquisition tasks.

The laboratory also contains two PCs capable of running one of three flight simulation packages (X-Plane®, Orbiter and FlightGear) to act as data generators for the instruments. The laboratory also features a full suite of typical instrumentation utilized aboard UTSI flight test aircraft (Inertial Measurement Units, Integrated Pressure Sensors, Global Positioning Systems etc…) so that hardware-software integration may be performed in the laboratory. The laboratory utilizes a private internal Local Area Network for high rate/high volume applications as well as interconnection with the UTSI network.

The Systems Laboratory also contains telecommunications test equipment for troubleshooting serial communications devices. Currently the laboratory is supporting integration of an air turbulence probe, the Polar Mesospheric Cloud experiment camera suite, and instrumentation upgrades for the Navajo and Saratoga. The laboratory is also utilized for classes such as Aviation Systems 508 - Flight Test Instrumentation. The Systems Laboratory PCs can also be configured as a “Mission Control” for monitoring simulations or real flight data.