Development of Pilot Model with Stochastic Periodical Discrete Movement

This paper proposes a new pilot control model which reflects the three characteristics of the pilot control behavior: stochastic, periodical, and discrete movement. The focus is on the final descent phase when the pilot controls the aircraft manually based on the flight director commands. The proposed model is developed based on an existing model as well as highly experienced pilot´s comments. A flight simulator experiment is conducted and the parameters are tuned by the obtained data. The simulation result shows that the proposed model captures well the characteristics of the data obtained in the simulator experiment and shows a good accordance with actual command tracking capability.