NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign (NC) partnered with Joby Aviation to test and evaluate different developmental candidate Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Instrument Flight Procedure (IFP) designs including new departure, enroute, approach and missed approach architectures using Joby’s high-fidelity engineering aircraft simulator. In conjunction with the simulator testing, this effort also evaluated related aspects such as charting, coding, and adherence to flight planning criteria. The test objectives were to assess the safety, efficiency, passenger comfort and noise of the different variations of the developmental IFPs. Safety-related measures include clearance from terrain and vertical obstructions, procedure flyability, and flight path conformance. Efficiency-related measures included time required, airspace volume required, and battery energy required. Passenger comfort and ride quality measures include roll/pitch angles, roll/pitch attitude change rates, and airspeeds prior to aggressive maneuvers, subjective pilot/passenger responses and acceleration forces. The noise impacts of the different IFPs will be interpolated/extrapolated using data from the simulator fed into a separate Joby acoustic software-based tool. Overall, several tradeoffs were identified and characterized between the different variations of the developmental IFP profiles. No single version of the developmental IFP structure scored highest across all measures listed above; rather, different IFP variations proved optimal for different measures, confirming that the best IFP depends on which specific measures are prioritized for a given aircraft, location and operation.


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    Titel :

    UAM Instrument Flight Procedure Design and Evaluation in the Joby Flight Simulator


    Beteiligte:
    D. Zahn (Autor:in) / R. Naru (Autor:in) / A. Guion (Autor:in) / S. Eggum (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023


    Format / Umfang :

    46 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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