This paper examines ship motion pattern directed letdown guidance strategies for landing a VTOL aircraft onboard a small aviation ship under adverse environmental conditions. Off-line computer simulation of the shipboard landing task is utilized for assessing the relative merits of the proposed guidance schemes. A sum of seventy sinusoids representation is used to model the ship motion time histories. The touchdown performance of a nonimal constant-rate-of-descent (CROD) letdown strategy serves as a benchmark for ranking the performance of the alternative letdown schemes.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Ship motion pattern directed VTOL letdown guidance


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1983-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    VTOL shipboard letdown guidance system analysis

    Phatak, A. V. / Karmali, M. S. | NTRS | 1983


    VTOL Shipboard Letdown Guidance System Analysis

    A. V. Phatak / M. S. Karmali | NTIS | 1983


    Automatic guidance for VTOL aircraft

    Hoffman, W. C. | NTRS | 1970


    Pressure-Letdown Plates for Coal Gasifiers

    Collins, E. R., Jr. | NTRS | 1985


    AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE FOR VTOL AIRCRAFT

    W. C. Hoffman | NTIS | 1970