For decades, safe Air Traffic Management services have been provided by maintaining sufficient distance between aircraft to ensure adequate reaction time for collision avoidance. With RADAR and voice communication as fundamental tools, separation requirements have evolved that recognize the relationship between speed and time, and convert these requirements to distance-based standards. This paper reviews physical relationships between altitude, airspeed, and environmental variables that determine the collision avoidance time between aircraft separated by existing distance-based standards to expose the inherent weaknesses of the conversion and establishes an alternative: time-based separation standards.


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    Title :

    Developing standards for time-based sequencing & separation of aircraft


    Contributors:
    Bell, Alan (author)


    Publication date :

    2012-04-01


    Size :

    389544 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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