Time Safety Margin: Theory and Practice

Abstract

Time Safety Margin (TSM) was developed in 2009 to provide risk reduction and aid in risk assessment for flight test maneuvers that include dives. TSM has become the standard method for flight test dive planning in the USAF. This handbook includes a short history of flight test dive planning and TSM, an explanation of the primary factors for dive recoveries, and an in-depth definition of TSM and its application in a regulatory framework. TSM is expanded to account for delayed recovery initiation. Following an introduction to the application of TSM, numerous TSM examples are provided. Several appendices are included to aid TSM planning, including charts for TSM estimation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1020034

Entities

People

  • William Iii R. Gray

Organizations

  • Air Force Test Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Control Systems
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Mach Number
  • Maneuvers
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Reliability
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional

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