Fly-By-Wire Special Challenges And Precautions

Patrick Veillette, Ph.D. April 22, 2019
Fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control systems present a special challenge in the event of inaccurate airspeed indications caused by reversion of such a system to laws/modes that provide reduced or no flight envelope protection. Flight control computers receive input from the pilot (i.e., nose-up command...
Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.

Upon his retirement as a non-routine flight operations captain from a fractional operator in 2015, Dr. Veillette had accumulated more than 20,000 hours of flight experience in 240 types of aircraft—including balloons, rotorcraft, sea planes, gliders, war birds, supersonic jets and large commercial transports. He is an adjunct professor at Utah Valley University.

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