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SeligSIM Assignment 1

15 points

Nathan Tyler Rose

Last edited 2 minutes ago by Ryan James Pirro.

Overview

Recall the article that Ryan shared in week 2 that summarized the importance of good training paired with good simulation. The article suggested that without proper training and instruction, a pilot can develop bad skills.

Fortunately, SeligSIM, being a university professor’s project, has flight training built right into the home menu. In this assignment, you will be reviewing these videos and creating a short write-up of the technique used before completing the lessons in future SeligSIM assignments.

Tasks

Flight Training Videos

Now that you have SeligSIM installed on your computer, according to

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, you will be able to complete these tasks on your own PC from the comfort of your bed! 🛏️

From the main menu, select the Flight Training option and choose Airplane.

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Flight Training Menu

Flight Training Menu

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Starting from the first lesson, Ground School, watch the videos for each lesson by clicking the Fly button. Complete the questions for each lesson below.

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After the lesson, press the ESC key to return to the Flight Training Menu.

Basic

Lesson 1: Ground School

List and describe each of the main controls

Aileron controls lateral movement, elevator controls vertical movement and rudder controls yaw around the vertical axis

Lesson 2: Takeoff

What is the first thing to do before moving/taxing the aircraft? Describe this process and describe exactly what you are looking for.

Testing to ensure all controls are free and correct, and that none of the three servos are broken. We test all of this on the ground before we go fly.

What control is used to maneuver on the ground?

rudder

Outline the process of the takeoff procedure

we asre going to throttle up to get takeoff power and produce thrust and lift and then gently apply a small amount of elevator up pressure to get the rc to lift off

What direction should you take off?

directly away from you.

Why does the instructor taxi away from himself first before initiating the takeoff sequence? What can you say about the takeoff point?

we taxi away that way we can have some distance between us and the drone and its also not going to hit us in case something goes wrong.

The takeoff point is still fairly close to us because it doesn’t take much to get the rc off the ground so we want to make sure we are ready to lift off after applying the power requied to get it up.

How does this differ from the Believer?

The believer does not have a landing gear so it needs to be launched to take off.

Lesson 3: Turns

Describe the throttle input from takeoff to cruise altitude.

on t/o we are at full throttle and once we reach cruise we throttle back to about half way.

What does it mean to pull the aircraft through a turn? Add a diagram showing the aircraft's forces to help illustrate this process.

we pull it through the turn with up elevator pressure and once its through the turn we take out the elevator and add a little opposite aileron to go back to straight and level.

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When are you most likely to turn the aircraft the wrong way? That is, when are you most likely to lose your orientation?

When you are trying to roll out from a turn and you acidentally use the opposite turn input, going deeper into the turn, the correction for this would be fixing it with the correct aileron input.

How do you plan to combat incorrect orientation?

correct wrongt input with right input in a timely manner before disaster takes place.

Lesson 4: Self-Recovery

Why fly high?

in case of mistakes or errors you have suffiecent time and altitude to correct before things go bad.

How does the instructor suggest recovering from incorrect attitudes?

neutralizing the sticks and letting the rc self correct

Lesson 5: Stall Recovery

What is a stall?

the airplane reaches its ciritcal angle of attack and there is not enough airflow over the wings to produce lift.

How can you recognize a stall?

nose drop after a either slow or high nose up attidue usually.

How can you recover from a stall? Describe the process in detail.

letting the nose drop adding slight elevator down pressure letting airspeed build from airflow over the wings and thenm gently applying back pressure to return to straight and level flight. all gentle inputs to prevent a secondary stall or nose dive

Lesson 6: Landings

What is a flair?

flair is when the airplane is close to the gorund and about to land and we add back pressure to touch down on the mains first before the nose.

Describe the instructor’s control inputs as he aligns for the landing? Describe the throttle, rudder, aileron, and elevator positions.

throttle comes to idle prompting a glide to the runway and once close, a gentle amount of back elevator pressure is applied to keep the nose from hitting the runway first.

How can you tell if you are aligned with the runway centerline? What is a technique that you could use?

landing directly away from you that way you can look down centerline and align the longintudnal axis of the plane with centerline.

How can you tell if you are on the correct glide slope to touchdown directly in front of you?

it shouldnt be too shallow becasue that will prompt low airpseed and potential for a stall but also not too steep to avoid a nose or flat landing at high speed making the plane go back in the air and then crash.

Lesson 7: Stunts

How do the flight characteristics of this trainer aircraft differ from those of the Believer? That is, in its current configuration, could you perform stunts with the believer?

we can do rolls and loops which the beleiver is not rated for.

You are welcome to watch the remaining stunt videos, but there are no questions on them.