EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: AN AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH TOOL

The Experimental Flight Management System (EFMS) program, part of a European collaborative research program called PHARE (Program for Harmonized ATM (Air Traffic Management) Research in Eurocontrol), which aims to investigate a future ATM scenario, is described. The EFMS will incorporate some revolutionary features, of which the most important are to plan and fly a four dimensional trajectory and to negotiate that trajectory via a digital data link with air traffic control. Development is a multinational activity of the aerospace centers of Germany, France, England and the Netherlands, coordinated by Eurocontrol. A first demonstration is planned for Jan. 1993. A number of applications of the EFMS program are described, most notably the avionic research test bed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 1992 Sfte Annual Symposium on Flight Testing in the Global Environment, Long Island, NY, 3-7 Aug, 1992. Limited reproducibility; more than 20% of this document may be affected by microfiche quality.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Aerospace Laboratory, Netherlands

  Amsterdam,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Brueggen, J
• Publication Date: 1992-6-29

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 14 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Cooperation; Flight control systems; International; International compacts; Management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Management systems
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00672248
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NLR-TP-92253-U, ETN-94-95972
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 19 1995 12:00AM