28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-P8.3


CONTINUOUS DESCENT TRAJECTORY WITH OPTIMUM ARRIVAL TIME CONTROLLABILITY

N. Takeichi, T. Hatano, Y. Fukuda*
Nagoya Univ., Japan; *ENRI, Japan

Keywords: air traffic management, continuous descent operation, arrival time controllability, flight trajectory analysis, traffic control

The authors has introduced the "arrival time controllability" to evaluate the continuous descent operation (CDO) paths. In this paper the arrival time controllability is analyzed to find a CDO path that maintains the optimum controllability throughout the descent to facilitate the CDO in a congested airspace.


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