FLIGHT MECHANICS

(1) GENERAL INFORMATION

FACULTY	APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES
DEPARTMENT	AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING
LEVEL OF STUDIES	UNDERGRADUATE
MODULE CODE	AE3220T	SEMESTER OF STUDIES	^6th
COURSE TITLE	FLIGHT MECHANICS
INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES		TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK	CREDIT UNITS
Lectures, Practice		4	4



*COURSE TYPE*	Specialty course
PRE-REQUIRED COURSES:
TEACHING AND EXAMINATION LANGUAGE	GREEK
THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDETNS
COURSE WEBSITE (URL)	http://eclass.gunet.gr/courses/LABGU129/

(2) LEARNINGI OBJECTIVES

Learning Objectives

After suffessfully completing the course, students should be able to: • distinguish the different flight stages and the aircraft hehavior characteristics • determine the forces, moments, speeds and accelerations during aircraft maneuvering • study aircraft performacne diagrams • face successfully problems of aircraft performance calcutation • know how the aircraft stucture affect control and stabiltiy
General Skills


Autonomous work Group work Study of the aircraft mechanical flight characteristics

(3) COURSE CONTENT

Unit 1: Introductory conceps

Unit 2: Atmosphere properties

Unit 3: Conventional methods of aircraft control

Unit 4: Longitudinal static stability

Unit 5: Lateral-directional static stability

Unit 6: Longitudinal dynamic stability

Unit 7: Lateral-directional dynamic stability

Unit 8: Straight level flight

Unit 9: Aircraft ascent-descent

Unit 10: Aircraft maneuverability

Unit 11: Flight in a storm, atmospheric turbulence

Unit 12: Introduction to aircraft automatic control systems

(4) TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

TEACHING METHOD

In the classroom

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Support of learning procedure through the use of e-class platform

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

*Activity*	*Semester Work Load*
Lectures	60
Group work	10
Independent study	20
Practice focusing on the application of methodologies and analysis of case studies with smaller groups of students	14


Total	104

STUDENT EVALUATION

Ι. Final written examination (60%) including:

- Multiple choice questions

- Flight mechanics prloblem solving

- Comparative evaluation of theory elements

ΙΙ. Group work presentation (40%)

(5) SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Σπαθόπουλος Β., Εισαγωγή στη Μηχανική Πτήσης, Ίων, 2011.