22 November 2018. This is quite impressive when the highest officer of the German Air Force, Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz (Chief of Staff GAF), visits our laboratory on the doorstep of decisive decisions for the planned new European combat aircraft FCAS (Future Combat Air System). FCAS is to be developed as the successor to the Eurofighter as part of a Franco-German cooperation and the activities of the professorship for Aircraft Dynamics and Flight Guidance for Manned-unmanned Teaming and Cockpit Design will hit the nail on the head.

24 October 2018. "There is no requirement for bad places ..." could have been the motto for the first summer school of the Chair of Aircraft Dynamics and Flight Guidance in Limone sul Garda. In fact, the 16 doctoral students had to fight their way through an almost two-day lecture program on Human-Automation Integration and Manned-unmanned Teaming. At first, Prof. Schulte lectured with the support of Dr. Donath.

23 October 2018. Research in the engineering sciences must lead to innovative industrial products! This is the firm belief of the institute's employees Yannick Brand and Fabian Schmitt. Together with Prof. Axel Schulte, they founded HAT.tec. The HAT.tec GmbH is a spin-off of the Institute of Flight Systems and will deal with the industrialization of the research results into "Human Autonomy Teaming".

16 October 2018. Fabian Schmitt was awarded for the "Best Paper" at the NATO Symposium on "Human Autonomy Teaming" in Portsmouth, UK. His presentation and the paper "Experimental Evaluation of a Cooperative Automation Approach for Manned-Unmanned Teaming in Future Military Helicopter Missions" were very well received in the Technical Evaluation Report, which is written by an international team led by Dr. Robert M. Taylor (dstl).

25 September 2018. Although it is already the third time that scientists of the professorship participate in the EAAP conference, the Institute of Flight Systems presents itself for the first time in its own session. The session focuses on the results of the experimental campaign in the helicopter simulator (we reported). EAAP stands for "European Association for Aviation Psychology". The EAAP conference takes place every two years, this time in historic Dubrovnik.

12 September 2018. Dr. Tom Prévôt, Director of Engineering, Airspace Systems at Uber, inspires the Institute of Flight Systems with the Californian company's visions of future individual transport with air taxis. He demonstrates how the Silicon Valley gurus approach things – "think big" is the motto here. In 2023, Uber plans to launch flying taxis in Los Angeles and other major cities.

18 July 2018. Under the title "Humans and Autonomy Working in Teams" seven scientists from three nations (Germany, Netherlands and USA) present their work. The event, organized by Prof. Axel Schulte as an "Invited Session", is part of the 15. Internationalen Konferenz zu "Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (EPCE)" under the umbrella of the mega-event "Human Computer Interaction (HCI) International 2018" in Las Vegas, in which the Institute has been actively involved for many years.

17 July 2018. Institute employee M.Sc. Yannick Brand wins the "Best Paper Award" of the International Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (EPCE) at this year's Human Computer Interaction International (HCII) in Las Vegas. The title of the article is "Design and Evaluation of a Workload-adaptive Associate System for Cockpit Crews". He deals with the presentation of the concepts and experimental results of testing his prototype of an assistance system adapted to the mental state of pilots for Mannd-unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) missions.

30 June 2018. As always, the Chair of Aircraft Dynamics and Flight Guidance will present its research flight simulators at the University's Public Open Day 2018. The photo shows our Combat Aircraft Simulator in which we investigate cockpit technologies for FCAS (Future Combat Air System, the upcoming weapon system of the German Air Force). Also on display were our helicopter simulator and our UAV fleet.

26 April 2018. MUM-T (Manned-unmanned Teaming) is gaining tremendous speed! Not only in the field of combat aircraft (see German-French agreement on FCAS "Future Combat Air System"), but also for military helicopters, the topic is at the top of the agenda. For this reason, the German Army Development Agency is organizing a panel on the topic "Digitization and Interoperability of Helicopter Forces in Land and Air Operations, including Manned-unmanned Teaming" in the HeliLounge of the 2018 Berlin Air Show.

17 April 2018. CASIMUS stands for five years of intensive research on automation and human-machine interaction for Manned-unmanned Teaming Missions (MUM-T) at the Institute of Flight Systems. Today the institute finally presents the outstanding results to about 20 representatives of the German Armed Forces, soldiers and officials, industry and large research institutions.

26 March 2018. The new website of the Chair of Aircraft Dynamics and Flight Guidance is online. Here you can inform yourself about our main research areas, projects, equipment and courses. Prof. Axel Schulte and his team are happy and a little proud to finally have an adequate representation on the web again.

9. February 2018. The LBC project (Ludwig Bölkow Campus) StraVARIA has been successfully completed. At the DLR Institute for Systems Dynamics and Control Technology in Oberpfaffenhofen, the project partners, including Airbus and DLR, gathered their research results. Jane Jean Kiam (Aircraft Dynamics and Flight Guidance) and Franziska Funk (Aeronautical Engineering) from the Institute of Flight Systems were involved.