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CE - 5614
Analysis of Air Transportation Systems
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Private aircraft operators carry out their own planning using either
manual computations or software like the one being demonstrated
in class (Jeppessen Flight Star)
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Free flight operations will increase the need for real-time flight
plans
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Select aircraft
Outputs:
Travel time, fuel consumed, trip report, trip profile and a hard copy
(or electronic form) of the flight plan
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330 304
386 345
441 386
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219 225
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Flight Information
Boeing 767-200
The entire trip crosses 5-6 ARTCC centers in NAS and involves 2
terminal area crossings (at origin and destination airports)
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Altitude (ft)
3
2
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1
0
33
34
35
36
37
38
Latitude (degrees)
39
40
41
42
-75
-70
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Altitude (ft)
3
2
1
0
-120
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-115
-110
-105
-100
-95
-90
Longitude (degrees)
-85
-80
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Altitude (ft)
3
2
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1
0
100
150
200
250
300
350
Speed (knots)
400
450
500
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Altitude (ft)
3
2
1
0
850
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900
950
1000
1050
Time (seconds)
1100
1150
1200
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Washington
Enroute Center
35
Atlanta
Enroute Center
Latitude (deg.)
34
33
113
91
131
126
129
32
31
87
61
62
30
23
24
29
93
51
115
86
Jacksonville
Enroute
Center
89
49
77
40
119
121
Sector
143
55
75
84
28
Miami
Enroute Center
27
26
-88
-86
-84
-82
-80
-78
-76
Longitude (deg.)
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Side View
5,200 ft.
Class C Airspace
3,800 ft.
3,400 ft.
2,132 ft.
Virginia Tech Airport
1,176 ft.
Roanoke Airport
22 nm
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Tactical
Lower Performance
Boundary
5-10
Degrees
Near
Strategic
Far
Strategic
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30-40
Degrees
Tactical
Near
Strategic
30-40
Degrees
Far
Strategic
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21,300 m
Enroute
Area
3.05 km
resolution
Enroute
Area
6,100 m
6,100 m
Terminal
Area
1.00 km
resolution
1,800 m
3,050 m
Airport
1,800 m
365 m
resolution
150 m
Center of Airport Complex
20 km
54 km
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1 s pulse width
1 degree antenna beam width
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0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
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0.1
0
20
40
60
80
100
Radial Distance (km)
120
140
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Radar 2
Aircraft 2
Aircraft 1
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Aircraft 1
Radar 3
Flight
Track
Pixels of Resolution
Time (min)
Radar 2
Aircraft 2
Aircraft 2
Aircraft 1
Time (min)
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Aircraft 1
Flight
Track
Radar 2
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Aircraft 1
Tactical Boundary
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Tactical Wx
Aircraft 1
Speed = 450 knots
Radar 2
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Aircraft 1
Speed = 450 knots
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Aircraft 1
Speed = 450 knots
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wind data at along the flight track (derived from FMS, INS or GPS
sensors)
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Winds Aloft
along the ight track
Icing
Turbulence
Convective
Sources of Data
Sampling Rate
Data Size
Continuous variables
reported (direction,
magnitude, location,
time)
every 10 seconds
for all aircraft types
every 10 seconds
(all types of aircraft)
reported as
every 10 seconds
(all types of aircraft)
reported as
every 10 seconds
(all types of aircraft)
reported as
a.Assumes no compression
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Indianapolis ARTCC
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180
160
140
120
100
1999
2020
80
60
40
20
0
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17 18
19
20
21
22 23
24
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Total Aircraft
inside Region of
Interest
(Aircraft per hour)
Instantaneous
Aircraft inside
Region of
Interest
General Aviation
231
35
Corporate
32
Commuter
140
28
Transport-Type
245
61
Total
647
128
General Aviation
128
128
Corporate
16
16
Commuter
66
66
Transport-Type
101
101
Total
311
311
General Aviation
516
438
Corporate
71
32
Commuter
312
156
Transport-Type
547
219
Total
1446
845
FAA Service
Area
Airport
Terminal
Area
Enroute
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