Tactical Data Systems Design Concepts Evaluation.

Abstract

Portions of a flight data management system for a single-seat multiple-role fighter bomber were simulated in a man/machine simulation facility. The effects of various combinations of manual or automatic target tracking and manual or automatic aircraft steering on system performance and pilot workload were investigated. Starting from a normal configuration of automatic target tracking, manual aircraft steering, and manual weapon release, the increase in pilot workload and degradation of release point error caused by manual target tracking was shown to be considerable. Additionally, the increase in system performance and reduction of pilot workload with the addition of a flight command function that integrates the weapon delivery calculations with the flight control system was demonstrated. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0786469

Entities

People

  • D. K. Eto
  • E. Streeter
  • J. W. Weber

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Automatic
  • Control Systems
  • Data Management
  • Fighter Bombers
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Steering
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tactical Data Systems
  • Target Tracking
  • Weapon Delivery
  • Weapons
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Software Engineering