Handling Qualities I

Technical Session A: Tues. May 20, 2025

Abstraction of a Flight Test Maneuver to Evaluate Handling Qualities for Helicopter Air-to-Air Refueling
Sven Schmidt, Tim Jusko

Development of Rotor Control Equivalent Gust Input (RCEGI) Models
Tanaya Sinha, Mahmoud Hayajnh, J. V. R. Prasad

Flight Test Assessment of Scalable Low-Level Mission Task Elements
Tim Jusko, Christian Walko, Tom Berger

Full-Body Haptic Cueing for Augmented Pilot Perception in Position/Velocity Tracking Tasks
Michael T. Morcos, Gabriele Luzzani, Madeline R. Fischer, Dogyu Jun, Evan Gary, Umberto Saetti, Derek H. Geiger, Stephen T. Kubik, Adam R. Breed, Clifton J. Crane

Handling Qualities Evaluation of an Helicopter Model Equipped with a Robust Variable Stability Augmentation System
Luis G. Moro, Flávio C. L. Ribeiro, Ronaldo V. Cruz

Identification of Control-Equivalent Turbulence Input (CETI) Models from Rotorcraft Simulations
Umberto Saetti, Marco Rinaldi, Giorgio Guglieri, Tom Berger, Linghai Lu

Model-Reference Adaptive Pilot Model of Rotorcraft Tracking Tasks with Time-Varying Vehicle Dynamics
Zhouzhou Chen, Joseph Horn

Vertical Motion Simulator Handling Qualities Testing of a Piloted eVTOL Vehicle Having a Degraded Powertrain
Kyle Barnes, Peter Suh, Curt Hanson

Handling Qualities II

Technical Session C: Wed. May 21, 2025

A Maneuver Control System Enabling Simplified Vehicle Operations and Tactical Maneuvering for a Tilt-Wing Aircraft
Imon Chakraborty, Bikash Kunwar, Peter Schmidt

Adapting Rotorcraft Mission Task Elements to Wildfire Applications
Shannah Withrow-Maser, Jeremy Aires, Nicholas Peters, Shay Lyons

Control Law Design and Handling Qualities for a Coaxial Rotorcraft
Barzin Hosseini, Derek Bridges, Doug Miller, Grey Hagwood, Michael Bachfischer, Florian Holzapfel, Juergen Rauleder

Decay Rate and Workload: Elemental Bases of HQRs and PIO Ratings
Edward Bachelder

In-flight Investigations to Evaluate the Suitability of the MCRUER Display to Conduct Mission Task Elements
Emily Vo, Chase Schulze, Michael Jones

Investigation of Contributing Phenomena to Unanticipated Yaw for Accident Mitigation
Tobias Ries, Thomas Gogel, Talha Sor, Marc Vives Massana, Paola Zanella, Charles C. Johnson

Minimum Energy Automatic Flight Control Design for eVTOL Transition Phases
Namuk Kang, Linghai Lu, James Whidborne