On Board Performance Monitoring and Alerting (OPMA) Airborne System Calculations, Statistical Meaning and Relationships to Separation Standards Development

Abstract

The MITRE Corporations Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) was tasked with assessing the utility of On-board Performance Monitoring and Alerting in modern Flight Management Systems. This report defines this functionality, documents an initial assessment of its utility, and focuses on separation standards development questions that will need to be answered to gain separation benefit from this flight deck capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1108362

Entities

People

  • Michael Cramer

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Distance Measuring Equipment
  • Flight Crews
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Models
  • Navigation
  • Navigational Aids
  • Probability
  • Safety
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design