In anticipation of a projected rise in demand for air transportation, NASA and the FAA are researching new air-traffic-management (ATM) concepts that fall under the paradigm known broadly as free flight. This paper documents the software development and engineering efforts in progress by Seagull Technology, to develop a free-flight simulation (FFSIM) that is intended to help NASA researchers test mature-state concepts for free flight, otherwise referred to in this paper as distributed air / ground traffic management (DAG TM). Under development is a distributed, humanin- the-loop simulation tool that is comprehensive in its consideration of current and envisioned communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) components, and will allow evaluation of critical air and ground traffic management technologies from an overall systems perspective. The FFSIM infrastructure is designed to incorporate all three major components of the ATM triad: aircraft flight decks, air traffic control (ATC), and (eventually) airline operational control (AOC) centers.
Development of a Free-Flight Simulation Infrastructure
1999
14 pages
Report
No indication
English
Air Transportation , Aeronautics , Avionics , Navigation, Guidance, & Control , Job Training & Career Development , Air traffic control , Simulation , Flight simulators , Distributed systems , Pilot stations , Display systems , NASA , US FFA , Corba(Common object request broker architecture) , FFSIM(Free flight simulation) , Free flight
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