A FLIGHT SIMULATION APPLIED TO THRUST CONTROL
Hildebrando Ferreira de Castro, Filho, Pedro Paglione · 2003
The ERJ-145 airplane, produced by EMBRAER, has two engines to provide thrust. This arrangement allows the use of thrust only as an alternative emergency control system. The automation of this system, referred to as CVE, for Controle de Voo por Empuxo (Flight Controlled by Thrust), was developed to help the pilot to maintain controlled flight and to land in case of partial or total loss of authority in its primary flight control surfaces. The qualitative verification of degree of controlability is performed by EMBRAER and Brazilian Air Force pilots in simulated flights performed in EMBRAER's Full Flight Simulator, installed at INFRAERO, in Sao Jose dos Campos.