The lecture "Fundamentals of Aircraft Operations" covers a multidisciplinary spectrum of all essential topics of aircraft and flight operations with a focus on commercial air transport. Based on the historical development of the civil air transport system, the lecture presents actors, operational procedures and framework conditions of air transport and offers in this context also an outlook on the potential and impact of new technologies. In detail the lecture contains the following thematic blocks: History of civil air transport, overview of aircraft design, aircraft operators, airports, air traffic control, commercial aircraft operations, environmental impact of air transport, electric aircraft, unmanned aircraft (military flight operations, aircraft maintenance).

Grundlagen der Luftfahrttechnik (recommended), Aircraft Design (recommended)