{"id":360,"date":"2012-02-09T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2012-02-09T19:40:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:40:59","slug":"news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/news-update\/","title":{"rendered":"News Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been months since the last website update, so here is a summary of the recent activities at Specific Range Solutions Ltd.\u00a0 Last September, I attended\u00a0 CAE Flightscape\u2019s User Conference in Gatineau.\u00a0 October had me in Miami attending the Society of Aircraft Performance &amp; Operations Engineers\u2019 (SAPOE) Annual Conference.\u00a0 In November, I attended the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC) AGM in Montreal.\u00a0 I made a lot of interesting and valuable contacts at each of the three events.\u00a0\u00a0 In December, I flew down Wichita to visit old friends and colleagues at the Bombardier Flight Test Center and Learjet.\u00a0\u00a0 My laptop decided to give up the ghost in the Midwest, I \u00a0just can\u2019t fault it after years of loyal service.\u00a0 But why in the middle of a business trip?<\/p>\n<p>As well, I gave a number of lectures and presentations this past fall, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a lecture on aircraft air systems to a keen class of fourth year undergraduate aerospace engineering students at Carleton University on November 2nd;<\/li>\n<li>a presentation on my company at the CASI Ottawa Branch Industry Forum at Carleton University on November 16th;<\/li>\n<li>and a day later, a lecture on\u00a0 the cruise optimization software developed by my company to the \u00a0faculty and graduate students at Royal Military College in Kingston on November 17th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of note, there is interesting research on-going at RMC in the areas of Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) and gas turbines.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I have been busy supporting a client in Montreal on a Bombardier Aerospace program and performing a flight operations optimization analysis on a typical flight of a 19 passenger turboprop based on actual flight data from FlightAware.com.\u00a0 The conclusion of the analysis is that small procedural modifications applied to a single flight can have significant impacts in terms of annual cost, fuel burn and emissions savings when applied to daily operations fleet-wide. \u00a0\u00a0Looking forward to publishing that article soon.<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<\/p>\n<p>Omer Majeed, P.Eng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been months since the last website update, so here is a summary of the recent activities at Specific Range Solutions Ltd.\u00a0 Last September, I attended\u00a0 CAE Flightscape\u2019s User Conference in Gatineau.\u00a0 October had me in Miami attending the Society of Aircraft Performance &amp; Operations Engineers\u2019 (SAPOE) Annual Conference.\u00a0 In November, I attended the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.srs.aero\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}