26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-11.9.1 (AIAA 2008-8930)
TERMINAL AREA REQUIRED TIME OF ARRIVAL (RTA) CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS AND AUTOMATION PROTOTYPE
P. V. MacWilliams, E. Zakrzewski
The MITRE Corporation, USA
Keywords: RTA, Merging, Sequencing, RNAV, Terminal
A ground-centric concept for merging and sequencing aircraft on Area Navigation (RNAV)/Required Navigation Performance (RNP) procedures in the terminal area leveraging the advanced flight deck capability of meeting Required Time of Arrival (RTA) instructions is defined. Automation to provide time-based resolution advisories, in the form of RTAs, speed control, and lateral offsets to the controller to achieve efficient merging and sequencing is proposed and evaluated.
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