The Department Flight Dynamics and Simulation explores the dynamic characteristics of aircraft and their interaction with the cockpit crew. The aim is to achieve a safe, economically efficient aircraft, being robust against extreme environmental conditions like wind, wake vortexes or icing, minimizing human operating errors, staying flyable at system failures and affecting the environment as little as possible.
For this purpose, the institute applies different research methods from theory through experiments in high fidelity flight simulators in real flight. Therefore, a close collaboration with test pilots as well as the modern simulation centre AVES (Air Vehicle Simulator) are available.
The intensive cooperation with DLR-internal institutions at different locations, as well as international partnerships in economy and research is an important basis for the department’s successful activities.
The simulator centre AVES (Air Vehicle Simulator) has two high-quality facilities for simulating aircraft and helicopters at the highest level - a motion simulator and two fixed-seat simulators.
