Concept for Airborne Precision Spacing for Dependent Parallel Approaches

The Airborne Precision Spacing concept of operations was previously developed to support the precise delivery of aircraft landing in succession on the same runway. The high-precision and consistent delivery of inter-aircraft spacing allows for increased runway throughput and the use of energy-efficient arrivals routes such as Continuous Descent Arrivals and Optimized Profile Descents. This paper describes an extension to the Airborne Precision Spacing concept to enable dependent parallel approach operations where the spacing aircraft must manage their in-trail spacing from a leading aircraft on approach to the same runway and spacing from an aircraft on approach to a parallel runway. Functionality for supporting automation as well as procedures for pilots and controllers is discussed. An analysis is performed to identify the required information and a new ADS-B report is proposed to support these information needs. Finally, several scenarios are described in detail.

• Record URL:
  http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120004039_2012004199.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Langley Research Center
  Hampton, VA  United States  23681

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Washington, DC  United States  20546
• Authors:
  • Barmore, Bryan E
  • Baxley, Brian T
  • Abbott, Terence S
  • Capron, William R
  • Smith, Colin L
  • Shay, Richard F
  • Hubbs, Clay
• Publication Date: 2012-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Technical Memorandum
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 31p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Aircraft operations; Aircraft pilotage; Airport runways; Approach control; Descent; Flight paths; Landing; Parallel runways; Precision
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01444821
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NASA/TM-2012-217346, L-20021, NF1676L-12630
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 2012 10:15AM