Total Envelope Modeling Application for Transport Aircraft

As the military increasingly relies on the militarization of commercial items, the need to assess these items in the military operational environment is key. This is particularly important in the use of commercial transport aircraft, where operational demands greatly differ between civil and military use. The use of simulation is of crucial importance, both as a method to identify operational and engineering performance, as well as familiarizing pilots with the aircraft characteristics. Unfortunately, the reliance on commercially certified training simulations, with their focus on civilian operational training, do not satisfy the assessment and training requirements for a military vehicle. In order to address the modeling deficiencies for transport aircraft, Bihrle Applied Research (BAR) proposes the development of a new “Total Envelope Modeling Application for Transport Aircraft” (TEMATA) program. The TEMATA effort will integrate recently developed modeling methodology with newly developed test and computational approaches to establish a validated modeling process for the development of high fidelity transport aircraft simulations. Further, the effort will investigate and apply novel methods of deploying these enhanced flight models in both engineering and training applications – from desktop simulation and analysis platforms to integrating the models on novel motion based simulation and in flight simulation applications