Auto Ground Collision Avoidance System Survey (Masters Program)

[faip]

Fellow Fighter, Bomber, and Attack pilots I am writing a paper for my final master's class on Auto Ground Collision Avoidance systems and I would greatly appreciate your participation completing a survey in order to help me complete that paper. If you have any military time in fighter, bomber or attack aircraft you can access this 15 question anonymous survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/67688D6

Thanks for your help. If you have any questions regarding the survey or project, please direct them to autogcas@yahoo.com

[Techsan]

No love for the herbivores?

[Buddy Spike]

No love for the herbivores?

Have tanker pilots started GLOC'ing in the tanker track and running jets into the dirt recently?

Or strafing after getting tail numbers?

[Techsan]

Maybe not GLOC, but falling asleep after eating a hot pizza out of the oven, while orbiting in the anchor...or while watching movies while in orbit. That shit can kill you!

[Azimuth]

Maybe not GLOC, but falling asleep after eating a hot pizza out of the oven, while orbiting in the anchor...or while watching movies while in orbit. That shit can kill you!

Or helping to find a Viper driver after he ditched in the Pacific.

[matmacwc]

Or helping to find a Viper driver after he ditched in the Pacific.

This wouldn't have helped that. It's coming to a Viper near you next year from what I hear at our test center.

[Slander]

Survey taken. Good luck with your thesis.

[tac airlifter]

What is auto GCAS?

[Toro]

Done. Good luck.

[Dupe]

What is auto GCAS?

GCAS is Ground Collision Avoidance System. Its a system where the aircraft recovers itself if the computer thinks its going to pack it into the dirt. The systems I've seen are based on DTED (computer-stored terrain data). A few variations have been tested at Edwards over the years in the Viper. I'm not sure if its in the plan for the F-35. There's obvious discussion on when you do/don't want it and what margin(s) between dirt and auto recovery you want.

Edit: damn you, autocorrect

Edited December 2, 2012 by Dupe

[Steve Davies]

What is auto GCAS?

An interesting article about it:

https://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article8.html

[SocialD]

https://www.f-16.net/news_article4658.html