GROUND BASED VARIABLE STABILITY FLIGHT SIMULATOR

The Interactive Physics Flight Simulator

This paper describes a modelling approach to the dynamics of the airplane flight aimed at designing and realizing a simple but realistic ‘‘flight simulator,’’ able to mimic the longitudinal behaviour of a real airplane. The model is implemented by using the Interactive Physics simulation environment. The simulator is used to reproduce all the phases of a complete flight of a light commercial ai...

Navegador3D: An Internet Based Flight Simulator of Urban Centers

Nowadays several areas of application need a precise 3D cartographic model, specially in the urban domain: telecommunications, urbanism, tourism and other ludicrous applications. The analysis of aerial stereoscopic photos provides a fast method to obtain a faithful relief of the observed scene, including its superstructures. This work presents the Navegador3D developed by NPDI/UFMG, ETIS/ENSEA ...

Model based control of a flight simulator motion system

Predicting Variable-Length Functional Outputs for Emulation of a Flight Simulator

Adaptive flight control systems using online-learning neural networks have great promise for improving the safety of aircraft. However, these systems are difficult or perhaps even impossible to certify using current methodology, yet it is required that the systems be demonstrated to be safe. A recent approach considers the use of statistical emulation to help understand the behavior of the syst...

A Fixed-Based Flight Simulator Study: The Interdependence of Flight Control Performance and Gaze Efficiency

Here, a descriptive study is reported that addresses the relationship between flight control performance and instrument scanning behavior. This work was performed in a fixed-based flight simulator. It targets the ability of untrained novices to pilot a lightweight rotorcraft in a flight scenario that consisted of fundamental mission task elements such as speed and altitude changes. The results ...