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Guidance and Control Philosophy for All-weather Landing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

S. S. D. Jones
S. S. D. Jones
Affiliation:
(Royal Aircraft Establishment)
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This paper, which was presented at an Institute meeting held in London on 21 January 1970, suggests a range of philosophical implications which result from the interaction of guidance and control systems in the context of all-weather landing of fixed-wing aircraft. It then attempts to deduce the considerations which must be applied to the approach to the engineering solution to the guidance and control problem.

In the context of this paper the terms guidance and control have specialized connotations which have achieved the status of common usage.

As they are used in the all-weather operations (AWO) jargon they are easier to define as adjectives than as nouns; the ‘guidance system’ is the system which defines the flight-path which the landing aircraft must follow and the ‘control system’ is that part of the aircraft equipment which enables the aircraft to follow the flight-path which has been defined by the guidance system.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , July 1970 , pp. 277 - 301
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1970

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