Flight evaluation of the CTAS descent advisor trajectory prediction

Author

Oseguera, Rosa M. ; Williams, David H.

Author_Institution

NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, VA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1995

fDate

21-23 Jun 1995

Firstpage

3435

Abstract

Since 1989, NASA´s Langley Research Center and Ames Research Center have cooperated in investigating issues relating to application of air traffic control (ATC) automation. The particular system of interest is the Center TRACON Automation System (CTAS), a ground-based system for automated management and control of terminal area air traffic which was developed by NASA Ames. The goal of the joint, multi-year effort is to explore issues relating to integration of the automation with airborne flight management systems. This paper describes that follow-on flight test conducted in September, 1994. The test protocol including the test matrix, equipment, and procedure, and the collection of the weather, trajectory, and aircraft data are described

Keywords

air traffic control; automation; protocols; testing; traffic engineering computing; Ames Research Center; Center TRACON Automation System; NASA´s Langley Research Center; air traffic control; airborne flight management systems; automation; ground-based system; test matrix; test protocol; Aircraft; Airplanes; Airports; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Automation; Flexible manufacturing systems; Microwave integrated circuits; NASA; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2445-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1995.533776

Filename

533776