THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLIGHT SIMULATION DATABASE USING HANDLING QUALITY STUDIES

A flight handling quality is a composite measure of performance used t o assess how well a pilot responds to flight conditions. Considering t he complexity of the aircraft and the human operator model, flight han dling parameters as well as the variables can be complex. For many yea rs; however, there a exist a large body of actual flight and simulated test reports on the handling quality measures of various model airpla nes from subsonic to supersonic. In order to replicate flight simulati on experiments in aircrafts modeled at the hypersonic speed, it would be of advantage to use a data of previous flight handling qualities. A mong other things, this procedure will save time in data collection an d help to extrapolate the existing knowledge into a new flight conditi on. In the presentation, we discuss a new object-oriented data base de velopment from a hierarchy of interacting objects. The data structures are divided into functional nets based on the level of human operator models, the aircraft state space, and the environmental state vectors . Different aircraft models with their data structures are used to clu ster the information into domain sets which can later be abstracted to generate test data for a flight simulation experiment.