APRIL 2024AEROSPACEDEFENSEREVIEW.COM19By Carrie Haase, Director of Flight Operations, Aurora Flight SciencesINSIGHTS INTO STREAMLINING FLIGHT OPERATIONSCarrie Haase is the Director of Flight Operations at Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company. Carrie oversees the company's aircraft operations, maintenance, and flight tests in this role.Carrie joined Aurora in 2003 and has held a variety of positions in program management, UAS system development, flight testing, and flight operations. Early in her career, Carrie played a key role in the development and flight test of several of Aurora's unmanned aircraft programs, including the GoldenEye family of vehicles. She has served in the program office for the GoldenEye and CH-53K system development programs and as program manager for the Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft program. As chief pilot, Carrie has overseen such flight test programs as Aurora's Personal Air Vehicle (PAV), Centaur, Small UAS programs, numerous surrogate testbed programs, and NASA's Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration project. Carrie holds a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, a Commercial Pilot's Certificate, a Flight Instructor Certificate (CFI), and a Remote Pilot Certificate. She is a native of the west coast, having lived in Alaska, Washington, and California before relocating to Virginia in 2001. She lives in Falls Church with her husband and two children, and she enjoys spending her personal time on a nearby family farm, volunteering with a local Scouts troop, or flying.Integrating New Technologies Addressing the Challenges Your Business Faces in Meeting Its Requirements for Flight OperationsThe strategic integration of autonomy features into our flight operations allows us to improve safety, reduce pilot workload, and increase data quality. By automating the basic functions of an aircraft, the flight crew has more capacity to focus on the system being tested. We also see quality improvements in that we can ensure that tests are repeatable and that we are analyzing the technology rather than the operators.Through human-machine teaming, we can augment a pilot's abilities in flight, which is valuable not only in our test operations but also for customers out in the field. Creating a partnership between humans and machines can deliver a better outcome than acting alone. Autonomy can add an element of redundancy to increase safety, and it can allow for more complexity, thus increasing the number, breadth, or duration of tasks that can be completed during each mission.Share Your Experiences from Successful Initiatives or Strategies Implemented to Streamline Flight OperationsNot all testing happens in the air. We are streamlining flight operations by improving the fidelity of ground testing. Carrie HaaseCXO Insights
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