Controller Assistant for the Final Approach
Motivation
As the number of aircraft movements continues to rise, so do the requirements for efficient and safe handling of traffic by air traffic controllers. Bottlenecks occur particularly in the vicinity of large airports, where large amounts of arriving and departing traffic are concentrated. Efficient use of limited runway capacity is therefore becoming increasingly important. Such requirements have led to a number of developments that have made the boundary conditions for air traffic controllers more and more complex. These include, for example, new methods of traffic sequencing and separation, such as more fine-grained wake vortex categories (RECAT), but also time-based separation (TBS). In order for such new developments to be used efficiently in daily operation, it is necessary to develop new assistance systems for controllers.
As part of the 5th Aviation Research Programme (LuFo V-3) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), the German Air Navigation Service Provider (Deutsche Flugsicherung, DFS) has successfully applied for funding of a development programme for a Controller Support Tool for the Final Approach ("Fluglotsen-Unterstützung Endanflug", FUTURE). Based on the extensive knowledge and references in the fields of safety research, trajectory analysis and optimisation as well as capacity analyses of airports, the Institute of Aviation and Logistics was commissioned by DFS to develop a prototypical assistance system to support the pilot in establishing optimum separation between aircraft along the final approach in order to make efficient use of runway capacity in Germany.
Point of Contact
© Sven Ellger
Research Associate
NameDipl.-Inf. Stanley Förster
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