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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 122 - Savannah, GA - October 2018
Agenda Location	10 SUBCOMMITTEE A – Aeronautical and Ground Vehicles 10.4 Taking Pilot Opinion out of Handling Qualities (review of past attempts and challenge to find solutions)
Title	Taking Pilot Opinion out of Handling Qualities (review of past attempts and challenge to find solutions)
Presenter	Matt Rhinehart and Dave Mitchell
Affiliation	NAVAIR and Mitchell Aerospace, respectively
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Abstract	Re-Thinking Qualitative Handling Qualities: The Need to Bring the Art of Handling Qualities Evaluation into the 21st Century Matt Rhinehart, NAVAIR, US Navy, Patuxent River, MD Dave Mitchell, Mitchell Aerospace Research, Long Beach, CA The evaluation of qualitative handling qualities has been done in very much the same way since George Cooper and Robert Harper published the original Cooper-Harper Rating Scale in 1969. Over the past 50 years almost everything that affects handling qualities has significantly changed and evolved. This presentation asks, “Why have our methods for evaluating handling qualities not evolved?”, “Why does it still matter that we evaluate handling qualities?”, and “How do we move forward?”. It highlights many fundamental problems with the current handling qualities evaluation construct that impact all types of aircraft platforms. It also provides examples of these problems. It then discusses possible ways to address these problems. This includes areas where plentiful research exists and areas that have yet to be investigated. This presentation does not provide the solutions but to give a brief survey of the research space. In the end, the goal of this presentation is to raise awareness that qualitative handling qualities evaluation is not a solved problem (far from it), to survey the major issues and their possible solutions, show that is still a need to solve these issues, and ask the aerospace guidance and control community to consider this a viable, active area of research.