Application of the rapid update cycle (RUC) to aircraft flight simulation.

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• Creators:
  Zhang, Yan ; McGovern, Seamus
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Aircraft Flight Simulators
• Publication/ Report Number:
  IMECE2008-66518
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2008
• Corporate Publisher:
  2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
• Abstract:
  An aircraft flight simulation model under development aims
  
  to provide a computer simulation tool to investigate aircraft flight
  
  performance during en route flight and landing under various
  
  atmospherical conditions [1]. Within this model, the air pressure
  
  and temperature serve as important parameters for deriving
  
  the true airspeed (TAS). Also important are the wind speed
  
  and direction, which will be direct inputs for the flight simulation
  
  model.
  
  In this paper, the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) data, provided
  
  hourly by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction
  
  (NCEP) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  
  (NOAA) are used to derive the atmospherical parameters.
  
  We relate the pressure to the geodetic altitude by using
  
  the geopotential height from the RUC data and the theoretical
  
  model. Then the resultant pressure as a function of the geodetic
  
  altitude is used to retrieve other parameters such as the temperature
  
  and wind velocity by multi-dimensional interpolation. Airplane
  
  flights simulated by the X-Plane(r) simulator with the input
  
  of the RUC data are demonstrated.
  
  
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