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Gordon H. Hardy
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Northrup Grummun Information Technology
NASA Ames Research Center

This paper reviews almost thirty years of developing pursuit displays at the NASA Ames Research Center and shows how this work was applied to a Civil Tiltrotor. It then uses this previous work to develop an “Inverse” flight director to reduce pilot workload during the
transition from the frontside to backside configuration while still preserving the advantages of the basic pursuit displays. The results from the Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA Ames showed that satisfactory performance and handling qualities were obtained for the transition from the cruise frontside to the final approach and landing backside configuration for a precision descending, decelerating, and turning approach under instrument conditions with
normally expected crosswinds and turbulence.

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A hardcopy of this document is available by request from Kathleen Starmer.