Reducing the theoretical methods of flight control to design practice, Practical Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control Design: An Optimization-Based Approach compiles the authors extensive experience and lessons learned into a single comprehensive resource for both academics and working flight control engineers.Concepts DiscussedHistorical flight control design case studies and lessons learned, and best practices in selecting control law architecture, specifications, and simulation modeling.Multi-objective parametric optimization design approach, with a focus on how to apply this method to both simple case studies and real-world piloted simulation and flight-test examples.Optimization of classical and modern MIMO control design methods to meet a common set of design requirements and compare the resulting performance and robustness.