CP Jois Elected Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society
Embry Riddle Aeronautical Sciences Assistant Professor, CP Jois elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
The grade of Fellow is the highest level of membership within the professional society, which was established in 1866 to provide a central forum for advancing knowledge in the aerospace and aeronautical community. As the “only professional body dedicated to the aerospace community,” RAeS “exists to further the advancement of aeronautical art, science and engineering around the world.”
To receive this honor, a Fellow must have made “outstanding contributions in the profession of aeronautics, attained a position of high responsibility in the field and had long experience of high quality.”
Jois has been affiliated with Embry Riddle, alumni (‘20), then as Faculty at our Worldwide and Daytona Beach campuses. He teaches classes in Aeronautics, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Human Factors, Aerospace Project Management and Airline Operations.
Jois has a 30+ year career in Information Technology in various roles and has been a CIO and CTO multiple times over the past two decades. Jois brings with him the convergence of academics and work experience in technology and aviation. Over his career spanning three decades, he has worked or consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies. He has served major carriers like United Airlines focusing on technology R&D to support Flight Operations, Airport Operations and Crew Planning. He is currently the fractional CIO/CTO for multiple clients.. Jois brings a deep passion for aviation and education, the intersection of which has led him to relentlessly pursue work in the realm of flight training technology. He has designed and built several generations of flight simulators.
Jois’ path into flight simulation began 40 years ago when his parents gifted him a floppy disk with Flight Simulator v2 (FS v2) on it. What began as a game, turned into a hobby, an interest and an area of deep passion leading to study and research of flight simulator design, engineering and application. He treasures the user manual for FS v2 on his bookshelf even today.
In 1999, he embarked on a journey to extend PC-based flight simulators to multi-monitor setups when it wasn’t yet possible to be handled natively on a single computer. An electronics engineer with a software specialization, he attempted to solve that problem by clustering computers. This allowed him to distribute the computational load across multiple networked CPUs and provide the level of compute power needed to generate high quality graphics across multiple monitors. In order to extend that idea to a larger platform he picked on a jetliner frame and began working on a design to simulate a larger chassis, frame and a lot more systems to aggregate. Moving from single to multiple networked monitors, he went on to engineer a seamless triple-channel projection model. Using 14 low-end computers to distribute the compute load, at one point in his work, he had proven the possibility of cutting costs of simulators through the use of personal computer clusters.
To study the subject formally, he enrolled into a Master’s program at Embry Riddle and all of his papers for his degree focused on flight simulators, their design, engineering, and application to the cutting costs of flight training and compressing time to complete training. He demonstrated several scenarios in his papers where simulators could enhance safety in the skies. He written several articles on this topic.
He has been a strong advocate of the use of simulation in ab-initio flight training. To support this cause, in 2013, he invested in a FAA-approved AATD and set it up at the flight school where he learnt to fly several decades ago (2013 Interview). More recently, in 2020, when the globe was engulfed in the throngs of the COVID pandemic, Jois was thinking constructively about helping aviation. He launched his flight simulation startup (www.Av8rAero.com) in 2020 to serve aviators and non-aviators. His clients included anyone between the ages of 9 and 90. Many of the younger clients who came to Av8rAero have gone on to take a discovery flight or enrolled at the local flight school. One of them is just about to graduate from Embry Riddle this year with a degree in Aeronautics, is. Commercial Pilot and also a CFI. The reviews left by customers on his website are a testimony to his passion to develop the next-generation of aviators.
Jois is currently focused on developing practical models for the compelling convergence of machine learning and flight training. He has recently embarked on a path to more formal research in the realm of flight training. He has been collecting data on his own simulator for several years and has been experimenting with machine-learning algorithms to test the potential for using these insights to improve flight safety.
He is a member of AOPA and EAA. He is an Instrument-rated Pilot and also a Part 107 Remote Pilot. He flies a Cessna 172 in his spare time.