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    A flight control computer (FCC) is a primary component of the avionics system found in fly-by-wire aircraft. It is a specialized computer system that...
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    computers determine how to move the actuators at each control surface to provide the ordered response. Implementations either use mechanical flight control...
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    A flight control mode or flight control law is a computer software algorithm that transforms the movement of the yoke or joystick, made by an aircraft...
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    conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system (AFCS) consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and...
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    fly-by-wire flight control system and an open architecture digital flight control computer developed by BEL. Its flight control surfaces are controlled by hybrid...
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    is often an integral component of a Flight Management System. Modern autopilots use computer software to control the aircraft. The software reads the...
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    altimeters, three flight control computers, and three ways of controlling the flight surfaces. The three flight control computers all work in parallel...
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    made the flight control computer produce a modification to the air flight system that would disengage the autopilot "when certain manual controls input is...
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    The Intelligent Flight Control System (IFCS) is a next-generation flight control system designed to provide increased safety for the crew and passengers...
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    software design limitation of the Airbus A330's fly-by-wire flight control primary computer (FCPC). The aircraft involved was an Airbus A330-303 twin turbofan...
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    malfunction in the rudder control system prompted the captain to perform a non-standard reset of the on-board flight control computers. Control of the aircraft...
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    specific applications, such as aircraft flight simulators, the flight computer in aircraft, and for teaching control systems in universities. Perhaps the...
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    Joystick (redirect from Control stick)
    a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. Also...
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    A flight management system (FMS) is a fundamental component of a modern airliner's avionics. An FMS is a specialized computer system that automates a...
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    Flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. The primary function of these is...
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    Aerospace to provide all three seating platforms and its Perigon as flight control computer. On 5 December 2022, the U.S. Army selected the rival Bell V-280...
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    flight control laws were programmed into a research flight control computer modified to include independently actuated outboard leading edge control surfaces...
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    Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in mission control centers such as NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center...
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    that houses the avionics and other electronic equipment, such as flight control computers, navigation systems, communication systems, and other electronic...
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    Boeing 737 install new flight control computer software and new display system software; incorporate certain Airplane Flight Manual flightcrew operating...
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    GPS-enabled, has an on-board flight control computer and a miss-distance indicator. It is also designed for autonomous flight with the help of an autopilot...
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    A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director and radar, which is designed to assist...
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    Saturn V instrument unit (category Guidance computers)
    digital computer, analog flight control computer, emergency detection system, inertial guidance platform, control accelerometers, and control rate gyros...
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    from the centre line of the detector. Sudarshan has an on-board flight-control computer with microelectronic-mechanical systems-based rate gyros. It also...
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    system (FLCS). The flight control computer (FLCC) accepts pilot input from the stick and rudder controls and manipulates the control surfaces in such a...
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    by which the pilot uses a side-stick to make control inputs to the flight control computers. The computers then impose adjustments and limits of their...
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    circuits was developed for the F-14. The CADC was a multi-chip integrated flight control system developed by Garrett AiResearch and used in early versions of...
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    caused the flight control system to switch to different control laws, the erroneously-sensed negative angle of attack caused the computers to inject a...
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    Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (category Flight control systems)
    Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a flight control law built into the Boeing 737 MAX's flight control computer, designed to help the aircraft emulate...
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    upgraded 32-bit IDF C/D flight control computer was awarded in 2002 to BAE Systems. AIDC said that the improvements of the flight computer will result in "a...
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