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/

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 

 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

TEACHING METHOD

In the classroom

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES  

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

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

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%)

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