FLIGHT CONTROL USING ONLY ENGINE THRUST: DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMERGENCY DISPLAY SYSTEM

Total failure of an aircraft's flight control system (FCS) is an extremely rare event but in such cases pilots have shown that some control may be regained by judicious use of engine thrust. Complex, reversionary auto-FCSs have been developed using this technique. This paper describes the development and testing of an emergency display system, designed to use only existing onboard sensors and displays to allow the crew to assume manual control and effect an emergency landing in such an event. Initial tests in an engineering flight simulator using a sample of line pilots suggest that when using this simple display system, they were able to recover control of the aircraft and navigate it with sufficient accuracy to effect a technically survivable emergency landing.

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• Authors:
  • Demagalski, J M
  • Harris, Devin K.
  • Gautrey, J E
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 173-192
• Serial:
  • Human Factors and Aerospace Safety
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • ISSN: 1468-9456
  • Serial URL: http://www.ashgate.com/subject_area/aviation/aviation_journals.htm

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air travel; Aircraft pilotage; Aviation safety; Flight control systems; Human factors; Information display systems; Mechanical failure
• Uncontrolled Terms: Emergency situations
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00941094
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 24 2003 12:00AM