09 - Air Transport System Efficiency
ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION DATA MODELS ON SHORT-HAUL MINIMUM COST TRACKS
N.K. Wickramasinghe¹, Y. Nakamura¹, A. Senoguchi¹; ¹Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Japan
This study investigates the impact of weather forecast error in flight planning and its influence in aircraft operational performance. Minimum Cost Tracks over the Tokyo/Fukuoka flight route from a Dynamic-Programming-based trajectory optimizer based on three weather models are used in the evaluation and the results are compared with a series of flight plan data and Quick Access Recorder data.