HANDLING QUALITIES REQUIREMENTS AS INFLUENCED BY PILOT EVALUATION TIME AND SAMPLE SIZE

Abstract

Two flight evaluation test methods for determining aircraft handling qualities requirements have been investigated and are compared in this report: 1) limited evaluation time with only five to seven minutes allowed per configuration, including comment time, for a sample of 15 pilots; and 2) unlimited evaluation time with no time restrictions for a sample of 3 pilots. Naval Air Test Center pilots accomplished the flight evaluations in the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory longitudinal variable stability B-26 airplane. The limited evaluation data exhibit a tendency toward compression of the rating scale in that a smaller range of ratings is used as compared with that used in the unlimited evaluation but the difference is not large. The unlimited evaluation time method is shown to be superior for handling qualities research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0400265

Entities

People

  • Edwin A. Kidd
  • Gifford Bull

Organizations

  • Calspan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautical Laboratories
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Airplanes
  • Airspeed
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Coefficients
  • Confidence Limits
  • Dynamic Response
  • Frequency Response
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Transfer Functions
  • United States

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  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Materials Science