Here's how you can analyze and interpret flight simulation data using logical reasoning.

I used CFD but was not very comfortable with it. It did not always work well. There were a lot of changes to be done to the components before using in the analysis. It needed to be improved to be user friendly and made affordable. A good manual or guide with real practical examples so that it can practiced is required.

While Scenario Analysis is a powerful tool in recreating specific conditions and flight environments, it is very important to ensure there are envelopes of data which are extrapolated from the data available. Why is this important to remember? Extrapolations are not always exact representations of the flight characteristics. It is a mathematical best guess, if you will. Knowing if the scenario you are attempting to analyze is in data extrapolation territory is important. As you systematically alter one variable at a time, you do isolate the impact on the flight and draw a logical conclusion, but it is only as good as the algorithm used for the extrapolation model. The data derived cannot be treated like fact and is not conclusive.

Continuous Learning and continuous improvement are beautiful things. When one strives for this, one knows at the end of the day there is an opportunity to be better than one began. That being said, in a technology-based profession, like the aviation industry, if one is not continuously learning, one is falling behind peers quickly enough the hill to climb soon becomes an unsurpassable mountain. In aviation, navaids are changing. Satellites are evolving. The old ways are overtaken by the blue or green line navigations. The new ways aid and better us as pilots. Honing our craft and becoming better aviators may mean learning all the new tricks while still remembering the old ways. After all, "time-distance-heading" does not fail.