Overview

This course offers a focused overview of the principles, architecture and test evaluation of modern Flight Control Systems (FCS), including fly-by-wire and stability augmentation. It is aimed at engineers, test pilots, evaluators and certification specialists engaged in the design, testing or approval of advanced flight control systems. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of flight dynamics, control engineering and test methodologies for evaluating augmented flight control behavior in modern aircraft.

Course Topics

• static equilibrium and trim
• longitudinal and lateral-directional static stability
• longitudinal and lateral-directional dynamics
• transfer-functions
• control engineering
• command and stability augmentation
• non-linearities
• modeling and simulation
• fly-by-wire architecture
• design of an autopilot in Matlab/Simulink

Prerequisites:

• basic English language proficiency
• a foundational understanding of math and physics is recommeded