Design and Implementation of Carrier Landing Runway Simulation System

This paper proposes a new design scheme of carrier runway simulation system. The system can be used for simulating training for the aircraft of carrier landing, and it can provide pilots with an environment being closer to the actual landing. The carrier runway simulation system mainly includes runway motion simulation system and the ideal landing point simulation system. The simulation system of ideal landing point simulates the height variation of the ideal landing point by using the horizontal variation of optical virtual arresting cable, it can offer crucial movement information to the carrier aircraft pilot. The runway motion simulation system employs a programmable multi-axis controller to control the linear motion guides moving with the infrared cooperative targets, which can simulate the carrier runway movement. And the high-precision magnetic grid measurement sensor collects motion information and transfers the information into the computer. In this paper, an 8:1 scale experiment has been designed and the runway motion simulation system is implemented. The experiment results show that the maximum height error of the targets between actual and setting motion is 0.02m, which meets the requirement of the simulation system and verifies the feasibility of the runway motion simulation system. What's more, the simulation system is beneficial to the later research work of carrier-based aircraft landing ground simulation.