Working with Aircrew
I am well versed in communicating engineering data to aircrew. Over time, I noticed many different squadrons (i.e., a group of personnel that operate aircraft) came to our team with similar technical questions. The established procedure was to address the question in an email to the specific squadron. However, I found it best to innovate upon this by creating PowerPoint briefs that could be widely disseminated to all squadrons in the Naval fleet rather than address one squadron’s requests at a time as they came up.
A skill that I gained and used often was to show what squadrons experienced in flight on one side of a slide vs. my modeling of the aircraft’s performance on the other side, complete with assumptions and ground rules. The operators appreciated this level of detail because it better helped them understand the physics and “the why” behind their questions.