Development of a Flight Instrument Package

Abstract

Subcontractor (Southwest Research Institute) describes the hardware and software comprising the Flight Instrument Package (FIP), a collection of transducers and electronic components that measure primary flight motion and position parameters and generate digital data representing those parameters. Pitch angle, bank angle, altitude, vertical velocity, airspeed, heading, and angle of attack are the main quantities digitized and relayed to a data port for processing into various displays of aircraft state. The FIP developed as part of this task was used in a Beech Queen Air aircraft to drive the Acoustic Orientation Instrument, which provides the pilot with an auditory display of aircraft bank, airspeed, vertical velocity, and other parameters as necessary... . Acoustic orientation, Aural displays, Flight instrumentation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA260830

Entities

People

  • Brian Mikiten
  • Dan D. Fulgham
  • John L. Orr

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuit Boards
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Flight Instruments
  • Language
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • Logic Gates
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Network Topology
  • Operating Systems
  • Printed Circuits
  • Separators
  • Tensile Strength
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems