Simulation of aircraft flights with turbulence and icing conditions

Turbulence and icing are dangerous situations frequently encountered in flight. It is useful to detect them to enable pilots to adapt flight, to estimate aircraft structural fatigue or to design robust flight control laws. Unfortunately, there is a lack of available data covering such phenomena. To address this, we propose a database of 22 simulated flights over a total duration of 52 hours. Flight plans are based on actual flights. A control system is set up to ensure that the simulated aircraft follows the flight plans. Turbulence is added using a Von Karman spectra and icing is added using measures made on real flight icing. All data (aircraft state variables, commands, aircraft properties, control variables, simulator data) is made available. The code for running simulations is also made available to allow the generation of new data.