Navigation Aids Performance Evaluation for Precision Approaches

The authors evaluate the expected performances of aircraft approaches and landings operated with different traditional and satellite-based navigation systems. In order to obtain an overall maneuver evaluation, flight dynamics characteristics and control authority of the approaching aircraft are considered. The presented analysis technique is applicable to different operative conditions, taking into account environmental constraints, aircraft requirements, and navigation systems features. The aim is to have a tool that can be used in the very preliminary system performance analysis design phase in different scenarios, such as airport ground systems adoption and air traffic control requirements compliance. The same tool later can be tuned to complement and direct the required real flight trials for an already fielded solution's validation. To illustrate the algorithm's capabilities, a numerical code referring to the presented analytical model has been implemented and some applications concerning the system's performance evaluation and planning are proposed. The tool and the proposed analysis technique indeed are successful in quantitatively assessing the differences among several possible approaches.

• Authors:
  • Tromboni, Pier Domenico
  • Palmerini, Giovanni B
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: Article ID: 389832
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
  • Volume: 2010
  • Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  • Serial URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijae
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft; Algorithms; Approach; Flight dynamics; Landing; Navigational aids; Performance measurement
• Uncontrolled Terms: Analytical models
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Vehicles and Equipment; I90: Vehicles;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01328292
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2011 10:42AM