Advances in Flying Qualities
Abstract
Judging the suitability of an aircraft to safely and effectively perform its mission without undue pilot skill and discomfort is what flying qualities is all about. Central to such judgement, and to the design of suitable aircraft plus flight control systems, is an understanding of what the pilot can do with ease and comfort or conversely what bothers him. The Lectures are designed to impart such understanding to both novice and seasoned practioners in flying qualities and flight control and thereby to provide the bridge required to extend flying qualities requirements from simple classic response aircraft, to the responses attending the use of full-time active control. It also provides a unifying connection among the empirically derived flying qualities requirements of different aircraft types, e.g. fixed and rotary wing. Mathematical models of pilot control behavior are explained. For purposes of ready and universal characterization , the aircraft plus flight control system (plus displays if applicable), is approximately matched by a lower order equivalent system of sufficient bandwidth to be indicative of the pilot's concerns. Some of the pitfalls and benefits of using flight simulators for flight control system development and flying qualities research are exposed and clarified.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA199307
Entities
Organizations
- AGARD