Colorado WAM separations standards targets of opportunity and flight test analysis

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• Alternative Title:
  28th Digital Avionics Systems Conference
• Creators:
  Daskalakis, Anastasios ; Hall, Timothy ; Mackey, Allen
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air traffic control
  • Aircraft separation
  • Instrument landing systems
  • Aircraft
  • Standards
  • Air traffic control radar beacon system
  • Mode S
  • Flight tests
• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  Colorado
• Corporate Publisher:
  Digital Avionics Systems Conference
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-AVIATION-Air Traffic Control ; NTL-AVIATION-AVIATION ; NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY
• Abstract:
  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ; Surveillance and Broadcast Services (SBS) Program ; Office and the Colorado Department of ; Transportation are implementing Wide Area ; Multilateration (WAM) in Non-Radar Airspace ; (NRA) to improve air traffic services at and around ; routes and fixes that support operations at ; Hayden/Yampa Valley (HDN), Craig-Moffat (CAG), ; Steamboat Springs/Bob Adams Field (SBS), and ; Garfield County Regional - Rifle (RIL) airports. In ; particular, the lack of comprehensive radar ; surveillance at and below 10,000 ft. in these regions ; requires controllers to use procedural separation ; standards for the Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) ; arriving/departing aircraft. While this is a safe means ; of providing service, it is inefficient for current traffic ; and especially for expected demand growth. ; Wide Area Multilateration is a distributed ; surveillance technology that utilizes a constellation of ; ground stations to provide surveillance coverage ; within a defined region. This technology makes use ; of signals transmitted from Air Traffic Control Radio ; Beacon System (ATCRBS) (Modes A and C) and ; Mode S transponders, in response to interrogations. ; The Mode S transponders also provide the squitter ; message once per second. ; The implementation, certification, and ; commissioning of WAM would enable air traffic ; controllers to apply more efficient separation ; standards for aircraft operating in the affected ; airspaces. For this operational environment, with ; WAM as the surveillance technology, the FAA seeks ; to achieve 5 NMI lateral/longitudinal separations. ; This paper describes the technical results from ; the data modeling, controlled flight test, and targets ; of opportunity analysis for the WAM sensor ; constellations near HDN and RIL to support ; separation standards within the Host Computer ; System (HCS) automation platform environment at ; Denver Center (ZDV). Comparative analysis was ; conducted between WAM and Secondary ; Surveillance Radar (SSR) to evaluate and validate ; WAM performance to support separation services.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10097/dot_10097_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 969.77 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bda7cf283203f3b85a6347b5fda5caf812ad9c37e4da47745860d295e28a4cc4