The Aviation Environmental Design Tool is being developed by the Federal Aviation Authority to assess aircraft noise and emissions. This capability is used to support domestic and global air transportation policy makers. However, in its current state AEDT is not capable of accurately modeling fuel burn of turbopropeller aircraft that fly at the national parks of the United States. The goal of this paper is the development of a method to calculate the fuel flow of these turboprop aircraft. The proposed method is developed using publicly available pilot information manual data from various aircraft manufacturers. It uses aircraft weight, pressure altitude and true airspeed to predict the fuel flow during cruise with a maximum error of 12% with respect to fuel flow values listed in the pilot information manual. It is recommended that the method is validated using in-flight fuel flow measurements. When implemented in AEDT the proposed method can be used to assess the environmental impact of turbopropeller aircraft flying at the U.S. national parks and thereby support policy making .


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    Title :

    Fuel Burn Modeling of Turboprop Aircraft


    Contributors:
    J. E. Geudenx (author) / K. Weils (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    52 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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