Brief Description of a Typical Program

A typical program of flight database would help perform the following operations/ tasks: (1) upload the raw flight data and subsequently the processed flight data,

(2) enter/edit the stability and control (S&C) derivatives, (3) plot the required graphs of the flight data, and (4) print results based on the selections made. Typical HW/SW requirement would be (1) latest available PCs, (2) Oracle database server,

(3) Oracle developer suite runtime [22], and (4) and Windows environment.

Menus:

Transactions —to upload raw and processed flight data, to delete the

data, and to add/edit the stability and control derivatives Graphs —different types of plotting options would be available

Reports —different types of report options would be available

User maintenance—option to manage users would be available Help —online help for flight data management

Exit —exiting from the application

The following description is given mainly with respect to the flight database collected from signal receiving devices for the purpose of estimation of aerodynamic (S&C) derivatives and the parameter estimation results thereof. A typical status screen of the flight DBMS is shown in Figure 7.14.