Lecture 15 (Emily)

Question 1

What is Airworthiness?

Answer 1

measure of a planes suitability for safe flight

Question 1

What is the UK and US organisations that give out airworthiness certificates?

Answer 1

CAA and FAA

Question 2

What are the two things that make up handling qualities?

Answer 2

Flying qualities and External factors

Question 3

What are examples flying qualities? [3]

Answer 3

Agility, stability, pilot-aircraft interference

Question 4

What are examples of external factors that affect airworthiness?

Answer 4

Mission task, urgency, wind and turbulence

Question 5

Definition of flying qualities?

Answer 5

stability and control characteristics of plane

Question 6

Difference between flying and handling qualities?

Answer 6

flying is how well a long task can be fulfilled
handling deals with the short term response of the aircraft, i.e how the aircraft is to fly rather then just theoretically.

Question 7

Why are there two types of flying qualities requirements

Answer 7

one for civil aircraft and one for military aircraft

Question 8

What do the flying qualities requirements depend on? [3]

Answer 8

Aircraft class, Flight phase, Level of flying qualities

Question 9

Class 1 definition

Answer 9

small, light aircraft for trainingC

Question 10

Class 2 definition

Answer 10

medium weight, low manoeuvrability

Question 11

Class 3 definition

Answer 11

Large heavy low- medium manoeuvrability aircraft bombers

Question 12

Flight phase category A

Answer 12

Non terminal flight phases that require rapid manoeuvring and precisise flight path control

Question 13

Flight phase category B

Answer 13

non terminal flight phases that require gradual manoeuvring

Question 14

what does a non terminal flight phase mean

Answer 14

not the last flight phase

Question 15

Flight phase category C

Answer 15

Terminal flight phase that require gradual manoeuvring and precision flight control

Question 16

Flying Quality Level 1

Answer 16

flying qualities clearly adequate for mission flight phase

Question 17

Flying Quality Level 2

Answer 17

Flying qualities adequate but an increase in pilot workload

Question 18

Flying Quality Level 3

Answer 18

degraded flight qualities but if the pilot puts a lot of work in, the plane will be able to carry out the mission

Question 19

As Flying Quality level increases in number what happens to pilot workload and risk

Answer 19

increases

Question 20

At Flying Quality level 3 which oscillation can be unstable

Answer 20

phugoid

Question 21

Purpose of flight testing

Answer 21

to determine the flight performance characteristics

Question 22

What is a thumprint plot?

Answer 22

a qualitative method to plot wn and damping ratio to see whether flight performance was ok for pilot

Question 23

What is the Cooper- Harper pilot rating scale

Answer 23

series of numbers that indicate pilots how much they like it e.g A1 for cat A or U8 for cat B

Question 24

How to excite dynamic responses in plane?

Answer 24

give different control inputs like impulse, step, doublet