26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-5.5.3

EXTENDING FMC TEST FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION AND FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS

Z. Li, H. Tang, S. Wang*
Chinese Flight Test Establishment, China; *NPU, China

Keywords: semi-entity simulation, FMS(Flight management system), primary flight simulation, VNAV(Vertical navigation), failure embedment

By means of a simulator we could expand the test research scope which could not be reached with flight tests, and recover and repeat some special domain of the test course, and make many kinds of experiments about FMS properties, functions and with embedded failures by combining simulation tests.

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