Involving air traffic controllers and pilots into the bird strike prevention process is considered an essential step to increase aviation and avian safety. Prior to implementing operational measures such as real-time warning systems, it is vital to evaluate their feasibility. This paper studies the efficacy of a bird strike advisory system for air traffic control. In addition to the potential safety benefit, the possible impact on airport operations is analyzed. To this end, a previously developed collision avoidance algorithm underlying the system was tested in fast-time Monte Carlo simulations involving various air traffic and bird densities to obtain representative conclusions for different operational conditions. The results demonstrate the strong safety potential of operational bird strike prevention in case of precise bird movement prediction. Unless airports operate close to their capacity limits while bird abundance is high, the induced delays remain tolerable. Prioritization of hazardous strikes involving large individuals as well as flocks of birds are expected to support operational feasibility in all conditions.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    The Efficacy of Operational Bird Strike Prevention



    Published in:

    Aerospace ; 8 , 17 ; 1-15


    Publication date :

    2021-01-14



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    Analysis of Risk-Based Operational Bird Strike Prevention

    Metz, Isabel Carole / Ellerbroek, Joost / Mühlhausen, Thorsten et al. | German Aerospace Center (DLR) | 2021

    Free access

    Aircraft bird strike prevention

    BOREN KELLY L | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access

    Aircraft bird strike prevention

    BOREN KELLY L | European Patent Office | 2016

    Free access

    BIRD STRIKE PREVENTION DEVICE

    KIM DONG SOO | European Patent Office | 2016

    Free access

    ROADKILL AND BIRD STRIKE PREVENTION SYSTEM

    JO JANG HEE | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access