This paper presents a discussion about risks and hazards of potential wake vortex encounters in the en-route airspace. High-fidelity simulations under realistic conditions have been analysed showing that the current en-route separation standards may be overconservative in some cases -thus enabling a potential reduction that may lead to additional airspace capacity-, whereas may not protect enough in some specific situations, thus requiring additional protection for flights. The simulation framework developed in the R-WAKE project, a SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research project, has been used to identify and characterise the suspected hazard areas (SHA) that flights should avoid under certain conditions if they are crossing a piece of airspace after another flight. A large number of simulations were performed to generate the SHAs, resulting from the combination of different: a) separation distances; b) aircraft types (including realistic masses and cruise speeds); c) altitudes and atmospheric conditions; and d) relative encounter geometries (horizontal and vertical). This study can support the development of new separation standards aimed at increasing airspace capacity and safety.


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    Title :

    Wake Vortex Hazards in En-Route Airspace and Suspected Hazard Area Identification Using High Fidelity Simulation Models


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    Publication date :

    2018-09-01


    Size :

    856697 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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