Engine cutoff is a recurring emergency in General Aviation, such mishaps can be caused by an engine malfunction, improper aircraft maintenance or even a faulty fuel gauge
Our main goal was to develop a system that generates cues, which should enable the pilot to track the trajectory, leading to a safe landing strip
The cues depend on height, location, velocity and wind estimation and the best landing site (manually advanced entered)
The main constraint is that we fly our system on a commercial aircraft, and can interface neither with its sensors nor with its power supply
There is also requirement to develop a flight simulator and demonstrate our system concept and algorithm via flight testing