Increasing runway capacity for continuous descent approaches through airborne precision spacing

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2877-2889

  Weitz, Lesley A ^a,c,d   Hurtado, John E ^a,c,d   Bussink, Frank J L ^b,d,e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^c 3141 TAMU ^*  (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; ERROR ANALYSIS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

AIRBORNE PRECISION SPACING (APS); ARRIVAL ROUTES; CONTINUOUS DESCENT APPROACHES (CDA); INTER-AIRCRAFT SPACING; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

AIRPORT RUNWAYS;

EID: 29744460144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-6142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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