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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 112 - Annapolis, Maryland - October 2013
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Government Agencies Summary Reports 4.2.1 DLR
Title	DLR
Presenter	Oliver Brieger
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Abstract	DLR - Flight Experiments Fleet Overview and Recent Flight Research Projects Oliver Brieger Head of Flight Operations Meeting No. 112 ACGSC, Annapolis, Oct. 16 – 18, 2013 The presentation gives an overview of DLR’s Flight Experiments Facility and its fleet of highly modified and instrumented research aircraft and their respective capabilities. The fleet currently comprises 11 fixed wing aircraft ranging from gliders to an Airbus A320 testbed as well as two helicopters, one of which serves as an in-flight simulator. The fleet supports two missions, meeting the demands of DLR’s various institutes and labs: airborne science and flight research. For the airborne science missions the aircraft serve as sensor platform for atmospheric/ environmental research and earth observation. For flight research missions all aeronautical fields are covered. Four examples from this year’s flight research program are presented: Flight testing of a wake encounter avoidance and advisory system (WEAA System), warning the pilot via a PFD-display symbology of potentially dangerous wake encounters of preceding aircraft and providing appropriate cuing to avoid a penetration. The demonstration of an automated helicopter landing in degraded visual environment such as brown out or white out conditions by enhancing a 3-D terrain database in real time by fusing data from multiple active sensors, enabling a tailored trajectory computation for approach and landing. The flight test demonstration of two active side sticks in a helicopter, to explore novel control strategies and envelope protection mechanisms. Flight testing of a control law for slung load stabilization during helicopter winching operations.