A piloted simulation experiment was conducted in the Vertical Motion Simulator to evaluate the handling qualities of noise abatement approach procedures for a civil tiltrotor. Approach and landing procedures flown on the XV-15 tiltrotor research aircraft were evaluated in the simulator by a larger pilot population. The impact on handling qualities of attitude stabilization control responseand w...

Developments in computational hardware and simulation software have come to a point where it is possible to use whole mission simulation in a framework for conceptual/preliminary design. This paper is about the implementation of full system simulation software for conceptual/preliminary aircraft design. It is based on the new Hopsan NG simulation package, developed at the Linköping University. ...

The aim of the collaborative European research project ‘Simulation of UPset Recovery in Aviation’ (SUPRA) is to develop breakthrough simulator technologies for teaching pilots to detect and recover from adverse flight upsets that could lead to unusual attitudes and lossof-control. In the project, the high-performance research simulator DESDEMONA is utilized, which integrates a flight simulator ...

This paper applies to Free Flight some lessons learned from ten years of investigation into computing in the modern cockpit. Early efforts concluded that Artificial Intelligence was better suited to Flight Management and Pilot Decision Support than to aircraft control. Later efforts produced an AI-based cockpit software decision system for inferring current flight operation without querying the...

Experimental and Natural Variation in Hovering Flight Capacity in Bees, Hymenoptera: Apidae By Jason Thomas Vance Dr. Stephen Roberts, Examination Committee Chair Associate Professor of Biological Sciences University of Nevada, Las Vegas In honey bees, the capacity for flight underlies many behaviors which impact fitness and longevity, such as the ability to forage or evade predators. However, ...

Commercial-off-the-shelf flight simulators are now reconfigurable through user interface software and have a significant increase in the number of parameterised aerodynamic co-efficients available to model the fidelity of flight performance. This leads to more stringent requirements concerning the management and interpretation of flight performance data which in turn means that certification of...

At many busy airports maximum efficiency and minimum delay occur when visual approaches are being conducted by pilots using visual separation from traffic for a portion of the approach. Pilot willingness to accept responsibility for visual separation also affords controllers maximum flexibility in traffic management under conditions of high traffic load. It may be possible to extend that effici...

Abstract. The UCF Driving Simulator has evolved since the late 1990's into a midrange simulator with the potential to conduct research in transportation, human factors and realtime simulation. A few years ago, the most serious limitation related to the absence of vehicular traffic in the visual data base. In 1999, a multi-year project was initiated to introduce autonomous vehicles for real-time...