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Títol: Introducing required times of arrival to pre-defined routes to enhance sequencing and merging in terminal airspace: A case study for Frankfurt airport PSA25N arrival route

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PRATS MENÉNDEZ, XAVIER

Departament: FIS

Títol: Introducing required times of arrival to pre-defined routes to enhance sequencing and merging in terminal airspace: A case study for Frankfurt airport PSA25N arrival route

Data inici oferta: 15-11-2016     Data finalització oferta: 15-06-2017


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    Tipus: Individual
     
    Lloc de realització: EETAC
     
    Segon director/a (UPC): DALMAU CODINA, RAMON
     
    Paraules clau:
    continuous descent approach, required time of arrival, time and energy management, tromboning
     
    Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
    Purpose of the thesis is to investigate one speci c Standard Arrival
    Route
    (STAR) that is of tromboning type for a purpose of ATM application
    using RTA
    technique. In this work I will investigate Frankfurt Main airport's STAR
    PSA25N. Investigate in this context stands for determination of all
    possible
    tromboning options and estimating the earliest and latest times of
    arrival
    possible with idle and powered (with a use of thrust and speed brakes)
    types
    of descend.
     
    Overview (resum en anglès):

    This thesis presented a new option for the Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) to better handle the traffic in congested Terminal Maneuvering Areas (TMAs). The concept, based on 4D trajectories, uses the required time of arrival (RTA) functionality, combined with a tromboning arrival concept. Introduction of tromboning arrival allows significantly widen the feasible time window at a given metering fix without requiring any interference from the ATC, such as path stretching (radar vectoring). Moreover, it reduces workload for ATC and also aircraft crew and allows for the on-board Flight Management System (FMS) to be in the loop regarding the remaining distance to the runway threshold. This remaining distance is vital when aiming for the environmental friendly procedures, such as continuous descent operations (CDO).

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