Minimum Flying Qualities. Volume 2. Pilot Modeling for Flying Qualities Applications

Abstract : The project was initiated to explore the modern nature of minimum flying qualities in the presence of modern aircraft and multi-redundant flight control system technology. It had several phases, including: 1) an intensive effort to develop and/or elaborate existing pilot modeling analysis techniques to apply to situations associated with minimum flying qualities, divided attention pilot operations, and multi-axis control tasks; 2) preliminary analyses and associated fixed base simulation to expand the meager multi-axis data base and to serve as pilot studies for more extensive simulations on the Air Force's Large Amplitude Multimode Aerospace Research Simulator; 3) an extensive simulation program on LAMARS to investigate minimum flying qualities and related situations; and 4) analysis and interpretation of both early and LAMARS simulation efforts in the context of the pilot modeling advances. The project documentation appears in three volumes. Volume 1 reports on the results of 2) through 4) above. This volume is a stand-alone monograph on pilot modeling, including procedures for estimating pilot workload as measured by pilot ratings. Volume 111 is a stand-alone monograph which presents a detailed implementation of a much expanded version of the human optimal control model on Program CC.