access different properties of object via variable name

Hello everybody,

I made a class 'Myobjects' with two objects 'Pilot' and 'Aircraft' with different properties. Through a function I want to change some properties of these objects. Imagine the I have for instance 2 aircraft and four pilots:

output=function(object's name) % i.e. pilot or aircraft
for i=1:length(Myobjects.object's name)
    X(i)=Myobjects.[object's name '(' num2str(i) ')'].direction
end

unfortunately, it doesn't work! Does anyone have any idea!!

[per isakson]

Is "function" the name of a method? No, I don't understand?