Print Email Facebook Twitter Simulator Evaluation of a Medium-Cost Variable Stability System for a Business Jet Title Simulator Evaluation of a Medium-Cost Variable Stability System for a Business Jet Author Mirza, Abdullah (Student TU Delft) van Paassen, M.M. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Mulder, T.J. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Mulder, Max (TU Delft Control & Operations) Department Control & Operations Date 2019 Abstract This paper discusses an approach to convert the longitudinal dynamics of the Cessna Citation into a variable stability platform using response feedback, thereby enabling it to take different positions on the Control Anticipation Parameter (CAP) handling quality criterion. The different positions of an aircraft on the criterion reflect different handling qualities, short period damping ratios and CAP. An experiment is performed to investigate whether the handling qualities found analytically, as a result of a variable stability control law, match those found practically from pilot tests on an aircraft simulator. Results of the experiment show that pilots are able to sensitive to even small changes in aircraft dynamics caused by the variable stability system, however, their judgment of the handling qualities does not always agree with handling qualities predicted analytically from the CAP criterion. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9f0bc7a2-7010-4de1-9310-31794c28483d DOI https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-0370 ISBN 978-1-62410-578-4 Source AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum: 7-11 January 2019, San Diego, California, USA Event AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019, 2019-01-07 → 2019-01-11, San Diego, United States Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2019 Abdullah Mirza, M.M. van Paassen, T.J. Mulder, Max Mulder Files PDF 6.2019_0370.pdf 1.11 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9f0bc7a2-7010-4de1-9310-31794c28483d/datastream/OBJ/view