Carlos Montealegre Arribas

Pursuing a Master's in Aerospace Engineering while working as a Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) Engineer at Akkodis for Airbus Defence and Space. Passionate about flight testing and involved in military flight test instrumentation and operations, I also enjoy civil and military flight simulators, learning the systems, extracting data and integrating physical panels. Proactive, organized, and eager to collaborate with industry professionals to further develop expertise in flight testing, combat aircraft and aircraft simulation.

Flight Test Instrumentation, systems engineer and operations at Akkodis for Airbus Defence and Space (2025-09 – Present)

Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer working on A330 MRTT prototypes and customer aircraft

• Performed instrumentation setup, and troubleshooting on A330 MRTT prototypes and customer aircraft.
• Conducted pre-flight checks with FTEs and test pilots, ensuring full readiness of sensors, data acquisition systems and FTI systems.
• Provided real-time data monitoring from Telemetry Room and Ground Station during A330 MRTT test campaigns in colaboration with foreign and Spanish Air Force (CLAEX).
• Processed and validated post-flight data, contributing to issue resolution and system performance improvements.
• Resolved instrumentation issues based on feedback from test crews.
• Analyze Flight Test Means Requirements (FTMR), to ensure consistency, completeness, and feasibility.
• Verification & Validation (V&V) Activities, working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Draft and review technical documents like SRD (System Requirements Document), SID (System Interface Document) or MML (Main Measurements List) to ensure proper traceability between test campaigns.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet, CAN and ARINC429 buses.

Intern - Final Degree Project. Flight Test Training Simulator (TFG) at Spanish Air Force (2025-07 – 2025-08)

Developed a Flight Test training simulator for Category 2 flight test aligned with EASA FCL.820 & 905

• Developed a Flight Test training simulator for Category 2 flight test aligned with EASA FCL.820 & 905.
• Use of simulation technologies and environments as a training system for military systems in a combat aircraft.
• Integrated Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) with MATLAB for data extraction and dynamic analysis.
• Design of a flight test engineer / instructor station with the aircraft displays and real time data.
• Integrated handmade arduino physical panels in DCS.
• Produced and drafted test plans and flight test cards to evaluate and integrate the sniper targeting pod on the F-16C.
• Familiarity with Electro-optic systems, such as the Sniper or Litening pod, integrated with Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground systems and weapons.
• Developed Flight Test Definitions, Test Hazard analysys (THA's) ... inside the Flight Test Plan
• Developed a data processing and analysis tool using MATLAB
• Data analysis and test report.

Intern - Projects and Construction Section (SEPCO) at Spanish Air Force (2025-02 – 2025-05)

Contributed to SIRTAP UAV infrastructure integration and operational planning

• Contributed to SIRTAP UAV infrastructure integration and operational planning.
• Designed aircraft aprons and taxiways in AutoCAD, ensuring ICAO/NATO compliance and based on operational requirementes for aircraft in the Air Force fleet.
• Conducted volume and layout optimization using MATLAB and Excel.
• Reviewed technical documentation for CN-235 (T-19) and C-295 (T-21) transport aircraft.
• Supported CAMO tasks for NH-90 (HD.29), including Service Bulletin analysis and technical documentation drafting.
• Studied A330 MRTT systems manuals as part of training on transport aircraft operations.

Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering – Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (2025)

Degree in Aerospace Engineering – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2019 – 2026)