DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DESCEND-TO-HOVER FLIGHT MODE

DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DESCEND-TO-HOVER FLIGHT MODE

A method for controlling a rotorcraft (101; 401; 501; 601), including receiving, by a fly-by-wire (FBW) system of the rotorcraft, a pilot input that initiates an automated descend-to-hover flight mode, scheduling, by the FBW system, a descend plane (405, 406; 506; 606) for bringing the rotorcraft to...

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Hauptverfasser: WORSHAM II, Robert Earl, GILLETT, Luke Dafydd
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:
AEROPLANES
AIRCRAFT
AVIATION
CONTROLLING
COSMONAUTICS
HELICOPTERS
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICS
REGULATING
SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:A method for controlling a rotorcraft (101; 401; 501; 601), including receiving, by a fly-by-wire (FBW) system of the rotorcraft, a pilot input that initiates an automated descend-to-hover flight mode, scheduling, by the FBW system, a descend plane (405, 406; 506; 606) for bringing the rotorcraft to a hover, and autonomously descending and decelerating the rotorcraft (101; 401; 501; 601) according to the descend plane (405, 406; 506; 606) in response to determining that the rotorcraft has entered the automated descend-to-hover flight mode and until the rotorcraft reaches a hover or the rotorcraft (101; 401; 501; 601) exits the automated descend-to-hover flight mode.