Controlling X-Plane from LabVIEW - Part 5: Airspeed Control and Modularisation
Channel: Adam Bellchambers
Date: 2017-03-02

This is the fifth in a series of videos on implementing a control system in LabVIEW to control an aircraft in X-Plane. One of the things that can make repeatable tuning of our control loops difficult is the fact that the responsiveness of our aircraft in all three axis changes with airspeed. We can address this in a later video by using a gain scheduler to have loop gains that vary with speed, but today we are going to look at simply adding airspeed control into our flight controller, which will allow us to maintain a desired fixed airspeed for tuning purposes.

The VI files from this video are available at: 
https://github.com/bellcham/LV_XP_AP

X-Plane is available from http://www.x-plane.com/ or on Steam at 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/292180/

A Home use version of LabVIEW can be trialed and purchased from 
https://www.labviewmakerhub.com/

The commercial use version of LabVIEW is available from:
http://www.ni.com/labview/

Red airplane as requested by https://www.youtube.com/user/dalefindlay