Exploiting the Capabilities of Flight Management Systems in Solving the Airport Arrival Problem,

Abstract

Increasingly Flight Management Computers are becoming standard fit on present day passenger aircraft (737-300, 757, 767, A310, A300-600). Avionic update programmes which incorporate Flight Management Computers, are in hand for 747 and MD 80 and new aircraft programmes A320, MD 11, 7J7, a330 AND A340 are or are likely to include Flight Management Computing as standard fit. As these aircraft come to dominate the traffic entering and leaving major airports there is potentially a new level of information and of control available to the air traffic controllers whose task it is to schedule the aircraft flow into and out of the terminal area. This information flow and the consequent control actions should enable the traffic to be handled in a manner to minimise delay, thus enhancing the available traffic handling capacity of an airport.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADP005456

Entities

People

  • J. F. Meredith

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Aircrafts
  • Computers
  • Control Panels
  • Guidance
  • Passenger Aircraft
  • Passengers
  • Personnel Management
  • Standards
  • Terminals
  • Traffic
  • Vehicles

Readers

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