23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-5.3.3

DEVELOPMENT OF A HANDLING QUALITIES EVALUATION TOOLBOX ON THE BASIS OF GIBSON CRITERIA

H. Hendarko
Institute of Technology of Bandung, Indonesia

Keywords: handling qualities, pilot-induced oscillation, gibson criteria

In this paper, a handling qualities evaluation toolbox based on Gibson criteria was elaborated, which covers time domain represented by Dropback Criterion and frequency domain represented by Phase Rate Criterion and Gain Limit Criterion. The toolbox is capable of evaluating handling qualities of a fighter aircraft, by yielding some visual representations of the response characteristics. In addition, the toolbox is capable of improving the aircrafts handling qualities as well by using Gibson's methodology in which stick-to-surface feed forward gain and command path pre-filter are used as essential tools.

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