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College of Aviation Student Research

Ryan Furtado College of AviationEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityPrescott, AZ

NASA Space Grant19 April 2008

Who I am

• Senior, graduation May 2008• Multi- and Single-Commercial Certificate• Instrument Rating• Working on Flight

Instructor certificate• After graduation

– Flight Instructor at ERAU– Fly for an airline

Alaska Airlines Internship

• Summer 2007• Human Resources

– Pilot Hiring

• Crew Planning– Crew Trip Trades– Late flights research

• Jump seat– Denver– Southeast Alaska

• Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangall

Research

• Development with Professor Ray Bédard– Proficiency with Microsoft Flight Simulator X

• NASA research grant

Missions designer

• Prescott to Kingman• Valle to St. George

Courseware designer

• Re-engineered AS435 – Electronic Flight Management Systems– Convert course from Elite Jet MD-80 to Microsoft

Flight Simulator (FSX) using B-767– San Francisco to Seattle

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FANCON

• International Flight Simulation conference Seattle 9-11 Nov 07

• In charge of the competition• ERAU awarded scholarships

$20,500• 400+ visitors to the booth• Using patent pending

technology

Carrier tutorial designer

• Developed scorable mission to be used with mission scoring system for Seattle competition

• Tested motion platform– Used during competition

Microsoft

• Personal invitation from ACES studio manager Shawn Firminger to visit studios on 11 Nov 07

• Possible future partnership with Microsoft

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