Air Traffic Control/Full Beacon Collision Avoidance System--Knoxville Simulation.
Abstract
This project was conducted in response to an ARD-200 request to investigate the interaction between a full beacon collision avoidance system (BCAS) and the present air traffic control (ATC) system in a real-time simulation environment. The specific objectives addressed the impact of BCAS on controllers and control procedures, the requirement of BCAS information to be displayed to the controller, and the effectiveness of alarm threshold desensitization in a terminal area. An additional objective was to evaluate the BCAS algorithm performance in terms of number, duration, and location of alerts and resolution effectiveness. The tests were conducted using the Air Traffic Control Simulation Facility (ATCSF) at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (NAFEC) during April and May 1978. Analysis of results indicated that the presence of BCAS in a moderate-density ATC terminal environment had no adverse effect on controllers or control procedures because of an extremely low positive command rate. A high number of BCAS advisory alerts which were displayed to aircraft but not to controllers had no effect on aircraft flightpaths. Many of these alerts were generated for aircraft navigating on established airways with proper ATC separation. A significant number of participating controllers favored the use of BCAS as a backup to the ATC system. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA074555
Entities
People
- B. Billmann
- J. Windle
- R. Strack
- Trevor Morgan