This paper addresses the problem of designing controllers for plants with widely varying dynamics over the required operating envelope. The plant investigated is a Generic VSTOL Aircraft Model (GVAM) supplied by the Royal Aerospace Establishment, Bedford. The a p proach taken is to switch between linear controllers designed on linearisations of the non-linear model. The linear designs make use of an open-loop singular value shaping technique developed by McFarlane and Glover [1],[2] which optimises the system robustness to pertnrbations of the normalised coprime factors of the plant. Switching between controllers is achieved using a technique proposed by Hanus [3] which enables smooth transition between controllers. Evaluation of the stability and performance of this technique is a key issue.