Integrating fly-by-wire controls with perspective flight-path displays

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1263-1274

  Mulder, M ^a,b,c   Veldhuijzen, A R ^a,b,c   Van Paassen, M M ^a,b,c   Mulder, J A ^a,b,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Faculty ot Aerospace Engineering   (Netherlands)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AUTOMATION; PERFORMANCE; TRACKING (POSITION);

FLIGHT-PATH DISPLAY; PILOT CONTROL ACTIVITY; PILOT MANUAL TRACKING;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 28444453699     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.12617     Document Type: Article

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