Simulation of Aircraft Flight from Recorded Flight Data

Abstract

The common flight data recorder (Tectep У3-ЛК) is the recorder of many Soviet Union aircraft types operated in Sudan, the use of the expensive Dvina-M software produced with this type of recorder for data analysis is fraught with major limitations and inabilities. These limitations affect pilot’s training and force the countries operating these aircrafts to send their pilots to the aircrafts manufacturers for training. The main objective of this thesis is to produce software that simulates the flight session and produces the flight trajectory from a recorded flight data in the flight data recorder (FDR) so as to make the understanding of flight data analysis obvious and easy to discuss with students pilots. Therefore, to simulate a flight session and reproduces its flight path from recorded flight parameters in flight data recorder (FDR) needs to classify, identify and extract the parameters that affect the movement of the aircraft. Then the selected parameters are reformed to meet the specifications of the Microsoft Flight Simulator parameters in order to pass those flight parameters through the FSUIPC to the MS Flight Simulator to simulate the aircraft behavior and motion during the real flight session. The most important result of this research is the Real Flight Simulation software that can simulate and analyse pilot’s flight training sessions, to reduce the effort, time and cost, with the ability to raise the capabilities and skills of pilot’s competencies.