Experience Different Aircraft Handling Characteristics

Overview

User capability

Represent meaningful differences in stability, responsiveness, speed, and control authority

User

An AeroSim player

What the user can do

Represent meaningful differences in stability, responsiveness, speed, and control authority

Why the user benefits

The player receives one coherent, observable capability.

User need

The player needs AeroSim to represent meaningful differences in stability, responsiveness, speed, and control authority.

In scope

Represent meaningful differences in stability, responsiveness, speed, and control authority

• StatusProposed
• OwnerAeroSim Scope (proposed; not accepted)
• Parent EpicAEROSIM-EP-3
• Depends onAEROSIM-FT-1

Tasks

AEROSIM-TS-86Planning status: Done

Define and validate aircraft handling archetype configurations

Each supported aircraft has one validated configuration for stability, responsiveness, speed, and control authority.

• Component@corp-v1-aerosim/flight-core — aircraft handling catalogue
• Depends onAEROSIM-TS-75
• RequirementsFR-0016

AEROSIM-TS-87Planning status: Done

Use one handling configuration in physics and presentation

The deterministic runtime and displayed handling characteristics consume the same validated aircraft configuration.

• ComponentWeb flight session — aircraft configuration resolver and handling presenter
• Depends onAEROSIM-TS-86
• RequirementsFR-0016

AEROSIM-TS-88Planning status: Done

Verify observable and repeatable handling differences

Equivalent governed scenarios demonstrate repeatable, configuration-consistent differences between supported aircraft.

• ComponentWeb flight runtime — aircraft handling comparison harness
• Depends onAEROSIM-TS-87
• RequirementsFR-0016, NFR-0009

Acceptance outcomes

1. 01

   Supported aircraft produce observably different stability, responsiveness, speed, or control authority under equivalent conditions.

2. 02

   Displayed handling characteristics match the configuration used by flight physics.

Functional requirements and measurable criteria

FR-0016

Experience Different Aircraft Handling Characteristics

The system shall represent meaningful differences in stability, responsiveness, speed, and control authority.

Acceptance 01

GivenAEROSIM-FT-9 is exercised within its governed scope under supported conditions

Whenthe primary capability path is completed

ThenSupported aircraft produce observably different stability, responsiveness, speed, or control authority under equivalent conditions

EvidenceFuture reviewed automated and browser evidence must verify this exact outcome against the current requirement.

Acceptance 02

GivenAEROSIM-FT-9 is exercised within its governed scope under supported conditions

Whenthe continuation or repeat path is completed

ThenDisplayed handling characteristics match the configuration used by flight physics

EvidenceFuture reviewed automated and browser evidence must verify this exact outcome against the current requirement.

Non-functional requirements

• NFR-0009 — Simulation consistency and bounded recovery

  Equivalent initial state and timed inputs remain within declared motion and world-state tolerances, and every invalid terminal state exposes a valid recovery, retry, or exit action.

Risks

• Risk

  Representative browser or input configurations may expose an unmet outcome.

Original source and prototype evidence

• discord: Agreed eight-Epic portfolio and Feature decomposition.
• discord: Agreed eight-Epic portfolio and Feature decomposition continuation.
• discord: RootAtSkic directed publication of the agreed Scope update.

Prototype and discovery boundary

Existing implementation is discovery evidence only; it establishes no current approval, acceptance, or release state.