The Feasibility of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts for VOR Flight Inspection

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 20; no. 7; p. 1947
• Main Authors: de Oliveira Costa, Diogo, Oliveira, Neusa Maria Franco, d'Amore, Roberto
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 31.03.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Aircraft accidents & safety; Automatic pilots; Aviation; Certification; Experiments; flight inspection system; Flight tests; Ground stations; Hardware-in-the-loop simulation; ICAO; Inspection; Inspections; Misalignment; NavAid; Preventive maintenance; Regulations; RPA; Simulation; unmanned aerial systems; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Very high frequencies; VOR; Waypoints; RPA; flight inspection system; drones; VOR; ICAO; UAV; unmanned aerial systems; NavAid

This article analyzes the use of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts (RPA) in VOR (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range) flight inspection. Initially, tests were performed to check whether the Autopilot Positioning System (APS) met the regulatory requirements. The results of these tests indicated that t...