Depends how you define it and what level of help you consider cheating.
We already have total energy (automatically
removes effects of pilot induced airspeed changes
aka "stick thermals" so you don't do this mentally.
We have netto which removes the effect of glider
sink rates at different speeds so you don't have to estimate this.
Speed command - a simple push or pull to fly at
the correct speed instead of tables or MacCready rings
A final glide computer.
Wind estimation algorithms instead of estimating
wind speed and direction from drift in thermals ,
drift of clouds, smoke and dust etc.
GPS to eliminate navigation as a task or skill
required to fly well. It also eliminates the old
skill of going around turnpoints efficiently. The
real rot started there BTW. The Danes seriously
suggested at IGC level to ban GPS in gliders around 1991.
It, along with all other radio navigation aids,
was in fact banned in contests until the IGC allowed it.
So we will now have an AI with a terrain map,
meteorological data and task to generate likely
best paths through the air and generate steering commands.
I'm not sure of the virtue of a pilot being a
wetware or meat servo to move the controls and
center the yaw string. An automatic yaw string
centering autopilot is pretty simple.
Likewise move the flaps automatically to be in
the right setting for the airspeed and g load
(already done in the Duckhawk IIRC). Then connect
the elevator to the speed command and tune the
ride for hard or soft just like was done in the F-111.
I guess we could leave the pilot with a small
rotary knob to adjust the heading in response to
the AI recommendations and how seriously the pilot regards them.
Gliding ain't what it used to be.
I think it will decline to be of interest to a
very small number of people as a relic of the paleo aviation era.
The future is likely to be small aircraft which
take off and land vertically using distributed
electric motors for that and a small piston
engine for cruise with large amounts of
electronics(oh a cube 10cm on a side I'd guess
would be a large enclosure) and very few piloting
skills required. Automatic traffic
de-confliction. Will beat the hell out of cars
for any serious distance. A number of companies
are working on this including one mob that have a
somewhat popular internet search engine.
Mike
At 04:54 PM 6/29/2016, you wrote:
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It might sound a little esoteric to some but in
my opinion, cheating is not winning...
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How are they going to tell? Even if there are no
autopilot servos the AI in the PNA will be
advising the optimum flight path, in its opinion.
It will be interesting scrutinising the software in your flight computer.
Mike
At 09:32 AM 6/29/2016, you wrote:
I note that the new Stemme S12 comes with an
autopilot. We're very close to autonomous full-scale gliders.
Are we going to be allowed to use autopilots in
competitions? I look forward to the IGC minutes on this one ;)
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Mike Borgelt
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Wonder what this could do in a glider?
<http://www.newsweek.com/artificial-intelligence-raspberry-pi-pilot-ai-475291>http://www.newsweek.com/artificial-intelligence-raspberry-pi-pilot-ai-475291
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