Automatic Landing of Aircraft. Part II,
Abstract
A semi-automatic guidance control system for landing aircraft is already in use today, in both military and civilian air traffic control. The following designations are in use: Flight Reference System, Director System, Flight System, Command Guidance Installation, and Flight Command Installation. A description of the interconnections and relationships of the semi- and fully-automatic control systems includes a diagram showing the sequence of control instruments. These include the navigation and computer-controlled positioning instruments and the display instrumentation for the pilot to follow in the semi-automatic landing system, or the alternate mechanized instrument landing system for fully automatic landing. Instrumentation and guidance methods in the semi-automatic system are described, utilizing essentially the artificial horizon display instrumentation with radio-beam locating techniques for the correct positioning of the aircraft by the pilot in approaching the landing field. The fully automatic landing system involves similar ground-based navigational and aircraft-positioning equipment augmented by an automatic pilot mechanism aboard the aircraft. The following aspects are discussed: (1) two complex communication zones, involving the automatic landing approach zone and landing zone, (2) the problem of adapting automatic pilots now in use to the requirements of automatic landings. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 18, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0859581
Entities
People
- G. Berger
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center