Flight Operations and Certification

Flight Operations and Certification

25 February 2025

Upset recovery simulation and testing

NLR can help you evaluate and validate your aircraft simulation using wind tunnel data, covering the entire flight envelope, including the stall region. We also offer a cost-effective solution to extend your simulation for upset recovery training, and provide support in defining and meeting certification requirements for implementing upset recovery and loss-of-control simulation in your […]
Flight Operations and Certification

25 February 2025

Flight simulator motion cueing

NLR can help you evaluate and optimise motion cueing algorithms for motion-based flight simulators, as well as assess the effects of motion on pilot performance, ultimately enhancing the realism and effectiveness of simulator training and improving overall flight safety. NLR can support you with: Documents
Flight Operations and Certification

24 February 2025

Rotorcraft performance and handling

Ensuring the safe and efficient operation of rotorcraft requires rigorous testing and evaluation. NLR offers expert consultation services for Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) of rotorcraft performance, helping you to assess flight performance, extend flight envelopes, and evaluate engine failure conditions. Our expertise also extends to accident investigation, stability and control analysis, including sling load […]
Flight Operations and Certification

24 February 2025

Flight procedure validation

Ensuring the safety and efficiency of flight procedures is crucial for modern air traffic management. When it comes to implementing Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) procedures, such as RNAV/RNP, RNP APCH or RNP AR, a thorough validation process is essential. NLR’s Flight Procedure Validation can support you in substantiating your decision to perform a Ground or Flight […]
Scalair taxi test Deelen
Platform System Design

06 January 2025

Booklet: Enabling safe and seamless drone operations

Drones are a key enabler for innovative solutions to tackle rapidly changing societal, economic and securitychallenges. NLR is the knowledge partner in this field for industry and government. We offer support in thedevelopment, implementation and societal acceptance of unmanned and autonomous aviation, taking intoaccount safety and minimal nuisance. We help with the realisation of safe, […]
Flight Operations and Certification

12 February 2024

Runway micro texture: advancing aviation safety through experimental testing

Step into the world of aviation safety with an in-depth overview of experimental testing. While there are established standards for macro-texture, there are none for micro-texture, prompting EASA to commission the development of minimum values and assessment methods. Collaborating with the German Aerospace Center DLR, and the engineering advisory organization ESDU, we conducted this project […]
Sustainability and Environment

11 July 2023

Fewer delays and less noise nuisance at and near airports

It’s far from unknown for peak crowding at airports to hit the headlines. And it’s not only the passengers who are stuck in queues: it’s busy in the air too. That’s why the ITARO project has bundled various solutions together to reduce the delays for flights, including gains that can be made in terms of […]
Air Traffic Management

30 June 2023

Simulation of integrated arrival and approach operations (ITARO)

As part of the SESAR3 JU project ITARO (Integrated TMA, Airport and Runway Operations), an integrated operational concept (IOC) to green flight operations whilst retaining a high capacity has been evaluated through Real-Time Simulations (RTS) on NARSIM, the NLR ATM Research Simulator. The demonstrations consisted of several SESAR solutions combined inside the TMA environment of […]
Flight testing NLR Citation above DNW wind tunnel
Airport Operations

12 May 2023

Measurement flights for a revised landing system at Schiphol

LVNL has revised the navigation system at Schiphol for letting aircraft land safely on the Zwanenburg runway. To check that the system works correctly and accurately, NLR will be carrying out measurement flights. They are planned for the evenings of 13, 15 and 20 May. During maintenance work on the Zwanenburg runway, Air Traffic Control Netherlands […]