2027 Handling Qualities Meeting

The VFS Redstone Chapter is sponsoring the 2027 Handling Qualities Technical Meeting from Feb. 16-17, 2027, in Huntsville, Alabama. The meeting will focus on meeting the needs of vertical flight aircraft handling qualities (HQ), flight controls and vehicle design communities. Technical topics will differ from the Annual Forum in that the focus will be on handling qualities standards and flight test technique development, in addition to updates to ADS-33E-PRF/MIL-DTL-32742(AR) for new military and civil platform configurations — including helicopters, advanced rotorcraft, drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft.

Call for Papers: Abstractis will be accepted in technical disciplines related to commerical/military rotorcraft/VTOL aircraft handling qualities, or the certificatin/qualification of handling qualities and the control systems that implement them, to include the complext behaviors induced by artificial intelligence. Some topics of interest include:

• Basic Vehicle Stability, Control/Response Characteristics; Control Methodologies
• Integrated Crew Station and Pilot-Vehicle Interfaces
• Crew Stations Inegration & Human Factors Engineering
• Flight Testing and Applies HQ Assessment Techniques
• HQ Requirements Impact on Cost, Schedule, and Performance
• Degraded Visual Environment (DVD) Solutions
• Refer to the Call for Papers HQ 2027 for detailed information and topics.