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The purpose of this paper is to present the sample result of researches under original conception of the aircraft handling qualities evaluation scale. It allows rating and comparing of different control algorithms implemented into the control system in the simple way.

The presented handling qualities evaluation scale takes into consideration two main elements to generate the grade of the tested control law. These are: pilot's workload during typical flight phases and the second is precision of control the pilot reaches controlling the plane.

The paper presents possibilities of using of the proposed methodology. Also contributions of its use are described.

The presented methodology can be applied to evaluate and compare handling qualities of different control algorithms supporting pilots.

This paper presents original conception of handling qualities evaluation scale for aircraft equipped with fly‐by‐wire control system.

The paper presents conception and practical realization of laboratory testing of control system for small aircraft. The stand used in these tests is prepared in Matlab and Simulink environment. Usage of xPC and RTW modules enables the system to perform “Hardware in the loop” real time tests including tests with pilots. As a hardware PC computer equipped with specialized boards, including A/C, C/A, converters and RS232, LPT, CAN 2B data lines was used. The main task of presented stand is to make possible tests of control system introducing new conception of aircraft controlling (e.g. smart control and decoupled control techniques).