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Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot/Vehicle Interactions [Paperback]

Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety (Author), National Research Council (Author)
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0309056888 978-0309056885 March 5, 1997
Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interactions between pilots and aircraft. As civil and military aircraft technologies advance, interactions between pilots and aircraft are becoming more complex. Recent accidents and other incidents have been attributed to adverse APC in military aircraft. In addition, APC has been implicated in some civilian incidents. This book evaluates the current state of knowledge about adverse APC and processes that may be used to eliminate it from military and commercial aircraft. It was written for technical, government, and administrative decisionmakers and their technical and administrative support staffs; key technical managers in the aircraft manufacturing and operational industries; stability and control engineers; aircraft flight control system designers; research specialists in flight control, flying qualities, human factors; and technically knowledgeable lay readers.

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Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interactions between pilots and aircraft. As civil and military aircraft technologies advance, interactions between pilots and aircraft are becoming more complex. Recent accidents and other incidents have been attributed to adverse APC in military aircraft. In addition, APC has been implicated in some civilian incidents.
This book evaluates the current state of knowledge about adverse APC and processes that may be used to eliminate it from military and commercial aircraft. It was written for technical, government, and administrative decisionmakers and their technical and administrative support staffs; key technical managers in the aircraft manufacturing and operational industries; stability and control engineers; aircraft flight control system designers; research specialists in flight control, flying qualities, human factors; and technically knowledgeable lay readers.

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Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety, National Research Council

Product Details

  • Paperback: 220 pages
  • Publisher: National Academies Press (March 5, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0309056888
  • ISBN-13: 978-0309056885
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,169,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Technical-but not that hard to read at all., February 3, 2011
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This review is from: Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot/Vehicle Interactions (Paperback)
I'm interested in aircraft stability problems at the moment-particularly with regard to Fly-By-Wire aircraft.
From my own experience-the complex interaction of aircraft control systems with the airframe is poorly understood by pilots, and many accident investigators. With hydraulically powered controls, rate limiting is an important factor in stability. The process of designing modern flight control systems with their special situation control rules induces the possibility of unexpected consequences in corners of the flight envelope where these special situations rules are invoked. Anything that unexpectedly creates additional rate limiting has the potential to adversely affect stability with cliff-like suddenness.
It helps to have an understanding of servo loops and control systems before trying to read this book.
A number of PIO incident case histories have been analyzed and described.
The book is readable without having to wrap your mind too heavily around the math.
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