Post by legoboyvdlp » 21 Sep 2017, 11:35
TBH, I don't think this is the right aircraft for scientific research: I completely agree with what Thorsten said.
But which aircraft is suitable? As I mentioned before, the most important things for me are a good simulation of the wind influence on the aircraft (that means the aerodynamic behavior), that the model JSBSim is used, that it is a passenger airplane which is still used in reality and that the automatic landing system works as precise as possible. And according to my experience the A320-family is not the best solution.
Some month ago I've invited A320 pilots to my institute for testing flights/approaches through implemented wind fields simulated with a CFD model. They also gave me the feedback that the flight experience is not realistic independent of the used wind fields. They told me the joystick for controlling the aircraft was to sensitive but the main problem was that the flight behavior of the A320-211 was not comparable to real life.
To sum up, I would like to say that the precision of the automatic landing system of the A320-family and the flight behavior is not as good as it should be to do a publication out of my investigations and that's too bad. Therefore i am still looking for a better plane.
Kind regards,
Sebastian