Flight Test + Nominal
Accelerating test campaigns for advanced aircraft development and operations
Nominal accelerates flight test campaigns for advanced aircraft.
Despite advancements in flight technologies, the software for testing and validating these systems hasn't kept pace with innovation.
Test engineers frequently waste time linking various tools for a tech stack instead of concentrating on new systems, especially for cloud software observability. Some choose to create in-house solutions, which face challenges with growing data scales and reliability as production increases.
Where Tests Actually Get Stuck
Long waits
Data reviews took hours or days, delaying iteration and risking missed test points.
Messy data
Incompatible formats and changing schemas across simulations, engines, and flight systems.
Laborious Manual Work
Engineers manually aligned telemetry, logs, and video across disparate test environments.
Siloed Knowledge
Teams at different sites struggled to share real-time insights, losing historical context.
Nominal provides a complete platform for managing and automating flight test review.
A Nominal integration can accelerate test cadence by an order of magnitude. Engineers compare test points across all historical flights in clicks, validating behavior in-flight with streaming checklists.
Build a data catalog
Create a repository of full-rate data, including vehicle telemetry, video files, spatial data, logs, PDF attachments, etc. Overlay computed events and our integrated weather connector to contextualize the synchronized datasets.
Query channels and filter by metadata to easily find desired data across all tests and assets.
Monitor asset lifecycles
Establish a unified view of each aircraft by capturing all associated data, with properties such as flight software version and battery model.
View system health, key metrics, and parameters over time, informing an end-to-end view of the asset lifecycle. Replace Grafana dashboards with dynamic, events-driven timelines.
Perform exploratory analysis
Conduct post-test analysis, quickly pulling data into multi-tab workbooks with time-synchronized plots, interactive maps, and annotated findings.
Calculate derived metrics using embedded calculations like absolute values and rolling aggregates, along with engineering constants and a formula builder. Determine fuel efficiency or calibrated airspeed without launching MATLAB.
Introduce automation
Author complex validation logic to identify important events such as test points, maneuvers, anomalies, and vehicle states across all tests.
Work with your team to review and resolve findings with priority-based alerting, issue assignment, link generation, real-time comments, and role-based access controls.
Compare and correlate across tests
Construct test-over-test metrics for trending, correlation, and out-of-family analysis. Map a system’s state space using contour plots.
Conduct comparative analysis, calculating output statistics and metrics for ranges of time meeting similar input conditions. Adjust flight test plans accordingly.
Generate dynamic reports
Produce detailed reports for internal reviews or regulatory compliance, complete with multi-user editing and version control, in just a few clicks.
Link to charts and tables referencing data and artifacts built in-app, and add technical commentary and annotations before exporting to PDF, .png, or other common standards.
From wheels down to clarity in minutes, not hours
The review of flight test data should start as soon as your engines have cooled down. With Nominal, you have the tools necessary to initiate this process effectively.
request demoClean Datasets
We allow engineers to access clean, contextualized datasets from any sensor and any source on-range, all in one place
Ensuring Safety
We allow engineers to validate test results and analyze test points, while ensuring safety and airworthiness at every stage
Getting started
We allow engineers to perform rapid root-cause analysis to triage issues and update systems
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