FAA gives stability standards for GA flying quality. For both fully automatic airplanes and autopilot aiding stabilized (sometimes called ‘half automatic’) manual control airplanes, as the autopilot can reflect much faster and more accurately than human pilots, the stability requirement standards for these airplanes shall be less strict.
I’m wondering,
I’m wondering,
- Is there anyway, even a rough way, to help figure out how much less stable could the fully/half automatic airplanes be? People would need a stability design standards when they design fully/half automatic airplanes as well.
- For fully/half automatic control and navigation airplanes design, is there still a need to take dynamic stability into account? It seems that as the airplane control surfaces are kept moving very frequently by the autopilot, the airplane attitude is adjusted all the time so there’s no need of the dynamic stability any more.
