The basic limitation of, air traffic compression, from the safety point of view, is the increased risk of collision due to reduced separations. In order to evolve new procedures, and eventually a fully, automatic system, it is desirable to have a means of calculating the
collision probability for any prescribed flight paths. This paper extends the statistical-probabilisitic method of collision probability calculation, which has been limited to parallel, straight line flight paths, to arbitrary flight paths and vehicle shapes. The general formula is specialized to the cases of large relative velocity city, non-zero relative velocity, zero relative velocity, and a spherical collision surface. The formulas are
applied to independent curved, landing approaches to parallel runways.
The manual presents the complete ILSLOC computer program package. In addition to including a thorough description of the program itself and a commente...
This report summarizes the results of an extensive wake turbulence data collection program at the San Francisco InternationalAirport (SFO). Most of th...
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