This report provides a statistical characterization of en route and terminal Minimum Safe Altitude Warning (MSAW) encounter situations. The characteristics were obtained by analyzing recorded Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) field data for MSAW encounters that occurred in Albuquerque, Fort Worth, and New York en route to airspace and Houston, Los Angeles, and New York terminal airspace. Encounter parameters discussed in this report include aircraft velocity and track stability, position relative to the protected airspace, and position relative to the radar site. This information is intended for use by the FAA's Advanced Automation System (AAS) Acquisition Phase Contractor to generate scenarios representative of realistic aircraft-to-aircraft encounters that will be used for performance analysis of the AAS MSAW function.


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    Title :

    Statistical Profile of MSAW Encounter Situations


    Contributors:
    D. Boone (author) / T. Waters (author)

    Publication date :

    1987


    Size :

    334 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English