Simulator evaluation of manually flown curved instrument approaches
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Sager, Dennis Wayne![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/68049/FTL_R_1973_01.pdf.jpg?sequence=126&isAllowed=y)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flight Transportation Laboratory
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Pilot performance in flying horizontally curved instrument approaches was analyzed by having nine test subjects fly curved approaches in a fixed-base simulator. Approaches were flown without an autopilot and without a flight director. Evaluations were based on deviation measurements made at a number of points along the curved approach path and on subject questionnaires. Results indicate that pilots can fly curved approaches, though less accurately than straight-in approaches; that a moderate wind does not affect curve flying performance; and that there is no performance difference between 600 and 90 turns. A tradeoff of curved path parameters and a paper analysis of wind compensation were also made.
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January 1973 Also issued as an M.S. thesis in the Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 1973 Includes bibliographical references (p. 122)
Date issued
1973Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1973]
Other identifiers
13494555
Series/Report no.
FTL report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flight Transportation Laboratory) ; R73-1
Keywords
Instrument landing systems, Flight simulators