Conference Program

ETTC 2026 - European Test and Telemetry Conference

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A - sessions = room München 1
B - sessions = room München 2

Tuesday, 09 June 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Registration

Room Entrance NCC Mitte

 

10:30 - 11:30 Opening Ceremony with two Keynotes

Room München 1

10:30 Bridging Component, System and Vehicle Testing: Insights from High Performance Vehicles Validation and Data Management Workflows

Giulio Boccardo, Data Science and Models Integration Manager Bugatti Rimac

11:00 Enabling Visions Take Flight: Establishing a Foundation for Reliable and Safe UAS Testing

Andreas König, Scientific Researcher German Aerospace Center (Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR)

11:30 - 12:30 A1 - RF Design I

Room München 1

11:30 Telemetry Streams Using Infrared Communication & Spiral Wrap Antenna Across Decoupled Interfaces

Avi Soffer, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center (USA)

12:00 Scaling Bidirectional Telemetry for Large Aircraft: Challenges and Solutions

Francisco Fernandez Casuso, Airbus DS (Spain)

11:30 - 12:30 B1 - Sensor I

Room München 2

11:30 Influence of High-Temperature Strain Gauge Installation Parameters on Measurement Accuracy and Reliability in Engine Testing

Oleksandr Pohuliaiko, High Precision Measurements (Ukraine)

12:00 Flight Test Instrumentation Blade Clearance Optical Measurement Method and Optimization In Scope of T625 GOKBEY Helicopter

Bayram Alican Boztuğ, TURKISH AEROSPACE (Turkey)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Room hall 1

 

13:30 - 15:30 A2 - Imaging & Video

Room München 1

13:30 The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth – Video Attestation for Evidentiary Purposes

Malcolm Weir, Ampex Data Systems Corporation (USA)

14:00 Large-Scale Digital Image Correlation for Aeronautical Structures with Complex Geometry: End-to-end Workflow and Validation on an Engine Nacelle

François Lefebvre-Albaret, Airbus (France)

14:30 Automated Camera Tracking Software

Furkan Mücahid Yıldız, Turkish Aerospace Inc. (Turkey)

15:00 IP Camera Integration to a Legacy FTI System

Eyüp Yaka, Turkish Aerospace Inc. (Turkey)

13:30 - 15:30 B2 - Networks & Architectures II

Room München 2

13:30 Deterministic Time-Synchronized Wireless Sensors for Lightweight Flight Test Instrumentation

Mario Grafe, sensry GmbH (Germany)

14:00 Deterministic Time-Synchronised Event-Centric Telemetry Architecture for Airborne Electrical Power Systems: Architecture, MIL-STD-1553B Integration, and Ground Test Validation

Ahmet Biber, Pavelsis Avionics (Turkey)

14:30 A Data-Centric Approach of Network based Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry System Architecture Design

Xianyu Du, Shanghai Aircraft Flight Test Engineeri (China)

15:00 Real-Time Telemetry Data Transfer Platform

Mustafa Ufelek, Turkish Aerospace Inc. (Turkey)

16:00 - 17:00 A3 - Data Management Standards

Room München 1

16:00 Model-Based Interface Management for Flight Test Instrumentation Systems

Claudia Pérez Rus, Airbus Defence and Space S.A.U. (Spain)

16:30 ARINC 818 - An analysis methodology

Matthieu Sanquer, TDM - SERMA (France)

16:00 - 17:00 B3 - Sustainable Testing & Materials

Room München 2

16:00 Ship Telemetry in the Oil and Gas Industry: Challenges and Impacts on Operational and Environmental Efficiency

Marcio Fernando Lemos Calixto, PETRONBRAS TRANSPORTE SA (Brazil)

16:30 Reliability Embedded Test Engineering (RETE)

Raman Gera, Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano (Germany)

17:00 - 18:30 A4 - ML & AI I

Room München 1

17:00 AVALON Evolved: New Features and Enhanced Applications

Francisca Coll, Airbus Defense and Space (Spain)

17:30 Optimizing Software-Defined Radio Flight Tests Using Automatic Speech Recognition & Large Language Model–Driven Analytics

Senthil Kumar, National Flight Test Centre (India)

18:00 A Digital Twin Framework for New Generation FTI Management Processes

Ali Tahsin Kaymak, Turkish Aerospace (Turkey)

17:00 - 18:30 B4 - Data Aquisition I

Room München 2

17:00 Miniature On-Board Data Acquisition System for High-G Projectile Testing

Kyvory Henderson, Diversified Technical Systems (DTS) (USA)

17:30 Instrumentation, measurement and control of a helicopter rotor under icing conditions

Erik Brehl, DLR (Germany)

18:00 PCM Frame Generator for Telemetry System Tests

Hatice Celik, Turkish Aerospace Inc. (Turkey)

Wednesday, 10 June 2026

09:00 - 12:30 Exhibition Visit

Room hall 1

 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Room hall 1

 

13:30 - 15:30 A5 - RF Design II

Room München 1

13:30 Dual-Mode Telemetry for Industrial Monitoring: Data Integrity between USB and LoRaWAN in Critical Infrastructure}

Ahsan Shahzad, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany)

14:00 Application of DBF Antennas in Flight Test Telemetry Systems

Xiaoqian Yi, COMAC Flight Test Center (China)

14:30 Toward Virtualized Flight Test Telemetry Architectures in the Era of Digital IF

Oussama Ait Sidi Ali, SAFRAN DATA SYSTEMS (France)

15:00 New developments for resilient GNSS navigation and timing

Michael Schulz, ALLSAT GmbH (Germany)

13:30 - 15:30 B5 - Sensor II

Room München 2

13:30 Temperature Stability and Oxidation of Strain Gauge Grid Alloys in High-Temperature Static and Dynamic Testing

Oleksandr Pohuliaiko, High Precision Measurements (Ukraine)

14:00 International A&D and test manager

Carmine Salzano, PCB Piezotronics (USA)

14:30 First- and second-order individual gas sensors as the next generation reliable analytical instruments

Radislav Potyrailo, GE Vernova (USA)

15:00 Fiber-Optic Low Airspeed Sensor

Marvin Henkel, Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany)

16:00 - 17:30 A6 - Networks & Architectures I

Room München 1

16:00 New generation of smart-sensor WLANs

Zoltán Kiss, ENDRICH GmbH (Germany)

16:30 A Solution to Reduce Data Transfer Duration for Onboard Recorded Raw Data

Dogukan Cevik, Turkish Aerospace Inc. (Turkey)

17:00 Network Data Analysis of the Ethernet Based UAV System

Muhammet Kursat Serceli, Turkish Aerospace Inc (Turkey)

16:00 - 17:30 B6 - Data Management Applications I

Room München 2

16:00 TA FTMC Activity Report

Volkan Tutay, Turkish Aerospace (Turkey)

16:30 A System Design for Real-Time Dynamic Testing Concept

Huseyin Oguzhan Eryigit, Turkish Aerospace (Turkey)

17:00 Flight Test Engineering Infrastructures Management Software

Yeter Ates, Turkish Aerospace (Turkey)

19:00 - 22:00 Bavarian Dinner

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Thursday, 11 June 2026

09:00 - 10:00 Registration

Room

 

10:00 - 11:30 A7 - ML & AI II

Room München 1

10:00 Extraction of Flight Parameters from MFD Recordings of the C-95 Aircraft

Alexandre Santiago, Instituto de Pesquisas e Ensaios em Voo (Brazil)

10:30 Creating a Search Engine for Test Data: Using AI Agents to Discover, Compare, and Analyse Test Results

Michael Rosam, Quix.io (UK)

11:00 A Modern Lakehouse Architecture for Test and Telemetry Time-Series Data

Matthias Baert, Marple (Belgium)

11:30 - 12:30 A8 - Hybrid / Remote Testing I

Room München 1

11:30 Retrospective review and lessons-learned of Tiger MkIII System Helicopter Zero development

Tachon Guillaume, Airbus Helicopters (France)

12:00 New LEO Satellite Connectivity Test and Qualification for future Stratospheric Flights

Jean Marc Gaubert, ATMOSPHERE (France)

10:00 - 12:30 B7 - Data Management Applications II

Room München 2

10:00 Enhancing Cybersecurity with Removable Non-Volatile Memory in FTI Systems

Markus Mazur, Safran Data Systems GmbH (Germany)

10:30 Automated Post-Flight Data and Signal Analysis in Flight Test Instrumentation Applications

Şafak Tambova, eRC System GmbH (Germany)

11:00 Modernizing Flight Test Cockpit Display Functionality Using IADS RTStation

Michael Jones, Curtiss-Wright (USA)

11:30 IADS in the Cloud

Michael Jones, Curtiss-Wright (USA)

12:00 From Design to Data: A Process Comparison of OEM and non-OEM Flight Test Instrumentation Systems

Tulio Brito, Flight Test and Research Institute (Brazil)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Room hall 1

 

13:30 - 15:30 A9 - RF Design III

Room München 1

13:30 Automated RF Attenuation Managing System

Furkan Kamil Tut, Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (Turkey)

14:00 Flight Test Management Centers, Receiving Systems and Frequency Allocation / Management System

Ayşe Bi̇lsel, TURKISH AEROSPACE INC. (Turkey)

14:30 Real-Time Detection of Antenna Tracking Errors for Enhanced Tracking Performance

Ayşe Bi̇lsel, TURKISH AEROSPACE INC. (Turkey)

15:00 An Analysis for Regional Data Availability and Out of LOS Conditions

Yakup Soysal, Turkish Aerospace (Turkey)

13:30 - 15:30 B8 - Data Aquisition II

Room München 2

13:30 The trip coil as a soft sensor for medium voltage circuit breakers

Ahmed Haroun, ABB (Germany)

14:00 Seamless Integration of DAQ Systems into OEM Test Ecosystems: Standards, Interfaces, and Future Trends

Ingo Pletschen, IPETRONIK GmbH (Germany)

14:30 From Code to Combat – Digital Architectures Capturing Gun Launch Environments

Alfred Rotundo, US Army (USA)

15:00 XMA-SOLO: Extending High-Performance FTI to Remote and Distributed Environments

Ghislain Guerrero, Safran Data Systems (France)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Room Foyer

 

16:00 - 17:30 A10 - Hybrid / Remote Testing II

Room München 1

16:00 Improving AIRBUS Flight Test Guidance with LEO Satellite Connectivity

Jean Marc Gaubert, ATMOSPHERE (France)

16:30 Turning Existing Telemetry Infrastructure into a Geolocation system: An interactive TDOA demonstrator for Flight Tests

Sebastien Bonnart, Safran Data Systems (France)

17:00 SCOFUS Hybrid Connectivity System: 5G, SATCOM (LEO/GEO), and LOS/Mesh Integration for Mission-Critical Communications

Burak Kocaer, CTech Bilisim Teknolojileri San. ve Tic. (Turkey)

16:00 - 17:00 B9 - Time - Space - Positioning

Room München 2

16:00 GNSS Spoofing: an increasing threat – how to detect, test and mitigate

Karen von Hünerbein, Lange-Electronic GmbH (Germany)

16:30 The Challenging Calibration of GNSS/INS Devices

Michael Mende, Spektra Schwingungstechnik und Akustik (Germany)

17:00 - 17:30 B10 - International Consortium for Telemetry Spectrum

Room München 2

17:00 Telemetry Spectrum Encroachment at WRC27

Heiko Koertzel, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Germany)