Guidance, Navigation and Control are often together. It makes perfect sense because all three of them depend on control theory and because they are the components of the software part of a Control System. But do you clearly know the differences be…

This post is part of a series about Guidance, Navigation and Control. See the table of contents here. Stability and Control Control answers the question ”How can the vehicle be stable?”. For an aircraft, it means “how can the air…

This post is part of a series about Guidance, Navigation and Control. See the table of contents here. Guidance Guidance refers to the questions ”where am I going to?”, “How can the vehicle follow a trajectory?**”. The traje…

If economy was an airplane, that airplane would go across a severe zone of turbulences. Then, a passenger would ask the air hostess “can I talk to the pilot, please? Because this pilot does not seem very good”. The hostess would answer…