1. Practises to identify and prevent adverse aircraft-and-rotorcraft-pilot couplings - A ground simulator perspective
- Author
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A Ionita, Olaf Stroosma, Deniz Yilmaz, Pierangelo Masarati, Michael Johnes, Hafid Smaili, Giuseppe Quaranta, Binh Dang-Vu, Marilena D. Pavel, Michael Jump, Larisa Zaichik, Massimmo Gennaretti, Pavel, Marilena D, Jump, Michael, Masarati, Pierangelo, Zaichik, Larisa, Dang-Vu, Binh, Smaili, Hafid, Quaranta, Giuseppe, Stroosma, Olaf, Yilmaz, Deniz, Johnes, Michael, Gennaretti, Massimo, and Ionita, Achim
- Subjects
Motion Cues ,Control Loading ,Pilot Assisted Oscillations (PAO) ,Engineering ,Aircraft Pilot Coupling ,Aviation ,Aerospace Engineering ,Flight simulator ,Range (aeronautics) ,(APC) ,Aircraft Pilot Couplings ,Biodynamic Feedthrough ,Latency ,Pilot Induced Oscillations (PIO) ,Rotorcraft (RPC) ,Simulator Fidelity ,Time delay ,Visual Cues ,Mechanical Engineering ,Mechanics of Materials ,Pilot training ,Simulation ,business.industry ,Perspective (graphical) ,Motion cues ,Motion Cue ,Visual cueing ,business ,Visual Cue - Abstract
The aviation community relies heavily on flight simulators as a fundamental tool for research, pilot training and development of any new aircraft design. The goal of the present paper is to provide a review on how effective ground simulation is as an assessment tool for unmasking adverse Aircraft-and-Rotorcraft Pilot Couplings (APC/RPC). Although it is generally believed that simulators are not reliable in revealing the existence of A/RPC tendencies, the paper demonstrates that a proper selection of high-gain tasks combined with appropriate motion and visual cueing can reveal negative features of a particular aircraft that may lead to A/RPC. The paper discusses new methods for real-time A/RPC detection that can be used as a tool for unmasking adverse A/RPC. Although flight simulators will not achieve the level of reality of in-flight testing, exposing A/RPC tendencies in the simulator may be the only convenient safe place to evaluate the wide range of conditions that could produce hazardous A/RPC events.
- Published
- 2015