The j2 Universal Tool Kit can accelerate the move to qualification and certification of an aircraft. Certification/qualification teams can build vital operational knowledge quickly whilst the powerful modelling and evaluation platform can be used to discover and rapidly solve aircraft performance issues that could delay certification processes. The software solution allows designers to fly and review set manoeuvres or put a pilot in the loop to uncover and solve handling/performance issues at any stage in the design process and well before real flight test is possible.
A successful aircraft design project culminates in the final certification of an aircraft. So, identifying major issues that will impact on certification at late stages in the process can be very expensive and potentially project killing.
The j2 Universal Tool Kit is unique in that it is able to include certification testing in the design process of any aircraft from simple 3 views to detailed design stages and beyond. Certification and qualification teams can build vital operational knowledge quickly, allowing for early identification of issues that can be solved as part of the on-going detailed design process.
The development of the flight model within j2 enables the design team to rapidly qualify changes and visualise variance in aircraft behaviour across a range of potted manoeuvres and a range of design options. Finally, the use of j2 Pilot gives the design team a unique opportunity to fly the aircraft in real time across the entire flight envelope on desktop to full mission simulator platforms.
With j2 software you can also import flight models in other code bases and ‘fly’ and also import flight test data and run flight matching to qualify the model.
The j2 software has an embedded ability to run fly off analysis and provides the ability to rapidly and accurately model mid-life updates and then re-fly the model viewing both versions over the same set of manoeuvres using the unique auto test facility. This powerful visualisation and predictive capability can significantly speed up the qualification process giving Pilots an opportunity to fly the aircraft in any simulator and feel the impact of the proposed changes.
In a purely commercial environment the same Universal Tool Kit can be used to provide prospective purchasers with the ‘flying experience’ well in advance of certification. This same capability can be run into any simulator platform in any country from a single source making the global marketing capability completely consistent and very powerful.
Where the emphasis is more on qualification of change the j2 Universal Tool Kit is uniquely positioned to run the analysis and qualification rapidly. This can have significant benefits as the proposed changes can be modelled early in the process and major issues identified and dealt with much earlier in the process.
