Since the summer of 2000, the F-l4 community has experienced three occurrences of rudder hardover. The NAVAIRSYSCOM F-l4 test and management teams commenced an investigation into the causes of the failure. This investigation led to the development of rudder hardover emergency procedures for the F-l4 aircrews. To assist in developing and evaluating the emergency procedures, the team utilized the F-14 simulation model in the Manned Flight Simulator (MFS) at NAWCAD, Patuxent River, Maryland. Flight fidelity was checked using qualitative comments from an F 14 fleet pilot who experienced the rudder hardover failure in flight and subsequently safely recovered the airplane. A flight test effort was deemed prohibitive due to safety concerns, cost, and the immediate need for NATOPS/PCL procedures required by the fleet squadrons. One challenge in using the simulation was that the resident MFS F-14 aerodynamic model had some limitation that had to be understood when performing tests on these malfunctions. The resultant rudder hardover simulation malfunctions were recently inserted into the F-14 Operational Flight Trainers (OPT's) and are currently being used to train fleet F-l4 pilots to handle this emergency situation.


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    Title :

    Responding to F-14 Fleet Rudder Hardover Incidents


    Contributors:
    M. Bruington (author) / K. Brenernan (author) / T. Santangelo (author)

    Publication date :

    2001


    Size :

    13 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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    British Library Online Contents | 2007



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