The flight simulator study described in this report concerns an evaluation of manually flown, flight director aided, curved microwave landing system (MLS) approach and departure procedures with a simulated wide-body transport aircraft. Four curved approach paths and two departure procedures have been evaluated, where these procedures were determined to be beneficial from an air traffic control (ATC) point of view. Test objects were: To expose crews, while flying a moving-base flight simulator programmed with the flying qualities of a wide-body transport aircraft, to MLS based curved path approach and departure procedures which have been determined to be beneficial; To collect pilot perception and performance data while flying these curved path procedures; To measure the crew's ability to detect insidious failures and to respond to these failures; To measure crew performance and to collect perception data when the crew must revert to basic MLS position awareness data in the presence of a navigation or guidance failure; and To evaluate performance on a complex approach path with one (critical) engine inoperative.
Flight Simulator Evaluation of Adavanced MLS Procedures
1991
203 pages
Report
No indication
English
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