General Aviation

Customizable general aviation aircraft

Description

General Aviation is one of the aircraft that you can use within the 3D simulation environment. This environment is rendered using the Unreal Engine^® from Epic Games^®. This aircraft is designed to be customized with a user-supplied skeletal mesh; a sample skeletal mesh is provided in Views.

To add this type of vehicle to the 3D simulation environment:

1. Add a Simulation 3D Aircraft block to your Simulink^® model.

2. In the Block Parameters dialog box, on the Aircraft Parameters tab, set the Type parameter to General aviation.

3. On the Aircraft Parameters tab, set the Path to general aviation mesh parameter to either the sample mesh path or to your own general aviation skeletal mesh path. The sample skeletal mesh path is /MathWorksAerospaceContent/Vehicles/Aircraft/GeneralAviation/Mesh/SK_GeneralAviation.SK_GeneralAviation”.

4. On the Initial Values tab, set the Initial translation (in meters) and Initial rotation (in radians) parameters to an array size that matches the general aviation aircraft, for example, zeros(15,3).

Views

Top-down view — General Aviation top-down view

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Side view — General Aviation side view

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Front view — General Aviation front view

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Back view — General Aviation back view

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Lights and Skeleton

Lights

Light	Bone	Location in SK_GeneralAviation Mesh
Left landing	LandingLight_L	Nose cowling
Right landing	LandingLight_R	Nose cowling
Taxi	NoseGear_Light	N/A
Red navigation	RedNavLight	Left wingtip
Green navigation	GreenNavLight	Right wingtip
Left wingtip strobe	StrobeLight_L	Left wingtip
Right wingtip strobe	StrobeLight_R	Right wingtip
Tail strobe	StrobeLight	Top of vertical stabilizer, pointing aft
Position	PositionLight1	N/A
Beacon	BeaconLight1	Top of vertical stabilizer

Skeleton

• GA

  • Engine1

  • Aileron_L

  • Aileron_R

  • Flap_L

  • Flap_R

  • Spoiler_L

  • Spoiler_R

  • Elevator_L

  • Elevator_R

  • Rudder

  • NoseGear

    • NoseGear_Wheel

    • NoseGear_Light

  • MainGear_L

    • MainGear_L_Wheel

  • MainGear_R

    • MainGear_R_Wheel

  • RedNavLight

  • GreenNavLight

  • StrobeLight_L

  • StrobeLight_R

  • LandingLight_L

  • LandingLight_R

  • BeaconLight1

  • StrobeLight

  • PositionLight1