Simulator evaluation of manually flown curved instrument approaches
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FTL_R_1973_01.pdf
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3.51 MB
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Author(s)
Sager, Dennis Wayne
Date Issued
1973
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1973]
Series/Report no.
FTL report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flight Transportation Laboratory) ; R73-1
Abstract
Pilot performance in flying horizontally curved instrument approaches was analyzed by having nine test subjects fly curved approaches in a fixed-base simulator. Approaches were flown without an autopilot and without a flight director. Evaluations were based on deviation measurements made at a number of points along the curved approach path and on subject questionnaires. Results indicate that pilots can fly curved approaches, though less accurately than straight-in approaches; that a moderate wind does not affect curve flying performance; and that there is no performance difference between 600 and 90 turns. A tradeoff of curved path parameters and a paper analysis of wind compensation were also made.
Description
January 1973
Also issued as an M.S. thesis in the Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 1973
Includes bibliographical references (p. 122)
Subjects
Instrument landing systems
Flight simulators
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