FLIGHT TAXIING GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT ON BOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER

摘要

A system is needed to confirm whether objects in the pilot's field of vision are influenced by the air intake during takeoff. When F-35 jet fighters under development are introduced to the country like Japan where there are few level grounds and consecutive urban areas, the takeoff from the urban area and the confined space is operationally conceivable. However, the accident that foreign bodies get mixed with air intake is assumed at the vertical takeoff that attains to the maximum output. The pilot determines according to the experience of many years that the objects of how many meters ahead of the airframe could be sucked by the engine control by the throttle operation. In this system, it is possible to verify on the screen image that the air a certain meters ahead of the airframe is sucked proportionately to the increased engine output. As the example of the danger avoidance while increasing the engine output on the deck of the aircraft carrier when persons and objects projected by the camera appear in the graphics showing the range of suction, then this becomes the criterion that the pilot uses to determine whether to lower the engine output. The safe air intake of the engine is an important logic not only in the air but also on the ground, especially in the narrow range on the aircraft carrier. This is the system to display on the multi-function display of the cockpit the image by the external camera that projects the front and the rear of the airframe, providing the pilot with information that the air of many meters ahead of the airframe is sucked now, and the composite image of the scaled graphics of the air intake range of the engine in response to the throttle operation by the pilot.