Handling quality criteria development for transport aircraft with fly-by-wire primary flight control systems

The introduction of fly-by-wire primary flight control systems in certain categories of future transport aircraft, makes it highly desirable to initiate further studies into handling quality criteria for future guidance in system design and airworthiness certification. The handling quality criteria for such aircraft must be based on parameters...

Human pilot describing function, remnant and associated information for pitch attitude control: in flight and ground-based tracking experiments

Servo-analysis techniques, using mathematical models of human control behaviour, are effectively used in studies of the system formed by the human pilot and the flight control system/aircraft combination. Measurement and data analysis techniques for the determination of pilot describing function, remnant and associated information needed in...