The 2025 Handling Qualities Meeting was a great success with more than 80 attendees and nearly 20 presentations and speakers. Presentation and technical paper PDF files will be provided to all attendee via the Hover online community, and will be posted in our Vertical Flight Library for purchase by non-attendees — Coming soon!
Final Agenda
The VFS Redstone Chapter is sponsoring the 2025 Handling Qualities Technical Meeting on Jan. 22-23, 2025, in Huntsville, Alabama. The meeting will focus on meeting the needs of vertical flight aircraft handling qualities (HQ), flight controls and vehicle design communities. Technical topics will differ from the Annual Forum in that the focus will be on handling qualities standards and flight test technique development, in addition to updates to ADS-33E-PRF/MIL-DTL-32742(AR) for new military and civil platform configurations — including helicopters, advanced rotorcraft, drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft.
Keynote Speakers:
- Opening Keynote: COL Ryan C. Nesrsta, US Army, Program Manager, Utility Helicopters, "Path Forward for Utility Helicopter Program Office and Thoughts on Autonomy for the Enhancing of the Enduring Fleet & Future Vertical Lift (FVL)"
- Day 1 Keynote: SES Dr. Stephanie Reitmeier, Director of the Software, Simulation, Systems Engineering and Integration Directorate (S3I), US Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center
- Day 2 Keynote: Brig. Gen. David C. Phillips, US Army, Program Executive Officer, Aviation
Session Topics:
- Test & Evaluation
- Flight Controls
- Human Factors
General Meeting Chair: Mr. Eric Grigorian, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Registration Rates: register online or fill out the registration form (PDF) and return to VFS. There is a $75 fee for all cancellations and no refunds after Jan. 13, 2025.
Category | VFS Member | Non-Member |
Speaker/Military/Gov't./Virtual | $275 | $390 |
Regular | $375 | $490 |
Fully Retired/Student | $125 | Non-members must join VFS |
Meeting Venue: Radiance Tech, 310 Bob Heath Dr, Huntsville, AL