Manual Reversion Flight Control System for A-10 Aircraft: Pilot Performance and Simulator Cue Effects.

Abstract

The A-10 aircraft incorporates an emergency backup control mode, the Manual Reversion Flight Control System (MRFCS). Maintaining effective control in this mode is a demanding pilot task, but it is not practiced in the flying training syllabus. Because current plans call for training this skill using simulation, information was needed on simulator cue requirements. Accordingly, the research objective was to determine the effectiveness of selected simulator visual and force cues used by experienced A-10 pilots to maintain aircraft control and to land when in the MRFCS mode. The study found that (a) a large field of view enhanced the pilot's control of the aircraft, (b) platform motion had no influence upon aircraft control, (c) aircraft control was more difficult in the MRFCS mode than in the simple single engine failure state, (d) point of failure was a significant variable reliably affecting pilot control of the aircraft, and (e) pilot performance improved as a function of practice (trials). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA113463

Entities

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  • Thomas H. Gray

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Control Surfaces
  • Control Systems
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Flight
  • Flight Simulators
  • Flight Training
  • Human Resources
  • Inflight
  • Information Science
  • Mission Profiles
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Simulators
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation

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  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.