The invention relates to determining the appropriate spacing between fixed-wing aircraft arriving at runways so as to permit the minimum separation commensurate with safe operation as a function of the atmospheric conditions. More specifically, this invention is directed to a vortex advisory system which will enable flight controllers to vary the separation between aircraft as a function of the accurately predicted motion of wake vortices produced by the aircraft.
Vortex Advisory System
1977
21 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aeronautics , Air Transportation , Meteorological Instruments & Instrument Platforms , Instruments , Aircraft landings , Vortices , Meteorological instruments , Patent applications , Meteorological data , Wind direction indicators , Data acquisition , Special purpose computers , Air traffic controllers , Aircraft separation , Following aircraft , Wake vortices , PAT-CL-73-188