Emergency and precautionary landing assistant

Author

Frantis, Petr

Author_Institution

Univ. of Defense, Brno, Czech Republic

fYear

2011

fDate

16-20 Oct. 2011

Abstract

According to statistics, there are many emergency landing into field due to engine failure. This situation is very stressful for the pilot in command and in general aviation airplanes (mainly in the LSA and small aircraft category) there are no instruments that would help pilot to deal with such a situation. Modern synthetic vision system with built-in 3D terrain database provides very little assistance or they are not helping at all with handling emergency landing in a field. This article deals with development and testing of emergency and precautionary landing assistant system based on synthetic vision system with detailed 3D terrain database. New functions that could help the pilot to deal with the difficult task are described. In conclusion the results of flight tests are discussed.

Keywords

aerospace testing; aircraft landing guidance; 3D terrain database; emergency landing assistant system; engine failure; flight tests; general aviation airplanes; precautionary landing assistant system; synthetic vision system; Airplanes; Airports; Instruments; Machine vision; Three dimensional displays; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2011 IEEE/AIAA 30th

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

2155-7195

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-797-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2011.6096111

Filename

6096111