NASA researchers are developing new airborne technologies and procedures to increase runway throughput at capacity-constrained airports by improving the precision of interarrival spacing at the runway threshold. In this new operational concept, pilots of equipped aircraft are cleared to adjust aircraft speed to achieve a designated spacing interval at the runway threshold, relative to a designated lead aircraft. A new airborne toolset, prototypes of which are being developed at the NASA Langley Research Center, assists pilots in achieving this objective. The current prototype allows precision spacing operations to commence even when the aircraft and its lead are not yet in-trail, but are on merging arrival routes to the runway. A series of fast-time evaluations of the new toolset were conducted at the Langley Research Center during the summer of 2004. The study assessed toolset performance in a mixed fleet of aircraft on three merging arrival streams under a range of operating conditions. The results of the study indicate that the prototype possesses a high degree of robustness to moderate variations in operating conditions.


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    Title :

    Fast-Time Evaluations of Airborne Merging and Spacing in Terminal Arrival Operations


    Contributors:
    K. Krishnamurthy (author) / B. Barmore (author) / F. Bussink (author) / L. Weitz (author) / L. Dahlene (author)

    Publication date :

    2005


    Size :

    16 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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