(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.