In this course, you will develop foundations in lateral flight control methods and application. Content will include classical and modern techniques with coded examples.
Learn how to develop, analyze, and tune a dutch roll damping system with yaw-rate feedback while avoiding interactions with aircraft turning objectives.
Learn why a coordinated turn is important and how automatic control can help the pilot achieve this highly efficient state of flight.
Learn how sideslip and sideslip rate can be fed back as part of a turn coordination control architecture for rapid regulation of sideslip and banking about the velocity vector.
Learn how the yaw-rate command tracking is achieved in the aileron channel and implemented as an outer control loop on the turn coordinated aircraft described in Section 1.3. The pilot can now command a turn rate through stick action and the aircraft automatically banks into a coordinated turn asymptotically achieving the turn rate command.