Developement Of An Instrument Landing Simulation ... - Cal Poly

showing the pilot where he needs to position the aircraft to keep the plane centered downthe runway. Once the plane has acquired the same heading as the runway, the pilot mustadjust the plane’s glide-slope to –2.5 degrees. The pilotmust then maintain the ILS fixed on the centerline and theglide-slope in order to make a nice smooth landing.Implementation of the ILS simulation proved that theILS model was accurate since the ILS led the pilot directlyFigure 31: CDI & ILSdown the center of the runway to a smooth landing. This simulation can now beimplemented into the classrooms and students can learn how to takeoff, fly a pattern, thenland using the ILS.4.2 Rear CockpitCompletion of the baseline for the front cockpit gives rise to the addition of a rearcockpit. PhEagle is already equipped with a back seat for a navigator. The back seat wasmodified to enable the rear cockpit to be either a navigator or a pilot of a differentaircraft. Since the rear cockpit does not have an analog stick, like the front cockpit, theinput is purely digital with the use of a gaming stick, rudder, and throttle. This allows thesimulation to be entirely digital and run on one machine. Once the baseline simulation iscopied and created from the front cockpit to the rear, the only difference will be toreplace the analog input with the digital inputs from the joysticks. However, since therear cockpit has no instruments, a HUD must be generated to display the aircraft’s statesto the pilot.32