Patent ID: 7693986

Claim:
An on-board flight test processing system, comprising: a group of standard interchangeable computers connected to an Ethernet network, identical software being installed on each computer; a plurality of integrated flight test functions, in the flight test processing system, to monitor and log events associated with a flight test, and each computer comprises a monitoring unit configured to monitor other computers in the group so that partner computers and tasks being done on each computer are known at all times, the monitoring unit using a strategies file, identical on each computer, that exhaustively describes all information for all computers, and that lists the tasks for each computer, wherein the software installed on each computer includes: an availability manager unit configured to manage a plurality of flight test applications as a function of inputted elements, a static strategies file table, that defines operations of each computer, a second group monitor unit configured to describe a composition of the group of computers at all times, an application monitor unit configured to monitor a state of applications being executed on the system, and a context manager unit configured to manage a context of the computer on which they are installed.