Watch An F-16 Save The Life Of Its Unconscious Pilot

[Klaiber]

Thought this was interesting:

 

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/watch-an-f-16-save-the-life-of-its-unconscious-pilot-1786574961

 

I wasn't aware that they had installed an Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System on the F-16.

 

I'm sure Sully 2 is glad they did.

[Britchot]

That's awesome.  I wonder if that pilot is still flying?

[Klaiber]

I wondered that too.

[-Hawkeye-]

Is there something that reads out the G's on that HUD?

[Britchot]

Top left corner if I'm not mistaken.  If I'm right, the plane puts herself into a 9.1G pull to level off. 
 

 

Chances are that it wasn't these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuqf_6oplMc

[Klaiber]

Yes.  The G-meter is on the upper left of the HUD.  Just above the air speed carrot and vertical air speed scale.

 

You can see at 19 seconds, he gets up to 8.2.

[Klaiber]

Brit beat me to it.

[Karl Spackler]

... and 9.1 on the fly up maneuver. Would appear that the AP knocked him out a second time.

[Karl Spackler]

Does anyone know if the AP has a "Climb To" setting? Wondering how long the jet would have stayed in that climb. I'm guessing there's an SOP that states it will be set to the hard deck.

[Klaiber]

That's a really good question.

[Barton]

I'm assuming it has a hard deck setting and uses the inertial navigation system to calculate trajectory of the A/C and recover from unsafe conditions.  At least, that's how I would do it.  All you would need is a program that knows a certain altitude (hard deck), the altitude, airspeed, and pitch angle of the a/c (the latter 3 being on the HUD already) to calculate when it is in a dangerous attitude.  You can see the two ">" "<" converge as he descends into an "x" (at 9,000ft) and it is at that point that the GCAS takes over.  

[FourSpeed]

Does anyone know if the AP has a "Climb To" setting? Wondering how long the jet would have stayed in that climb. I'm guessing there's an SOP that states it will be set to the hard deck.

 

Here's a link that talks about some of the features and the testing process that went into the Auto-GCAS system.

 

Regards,

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