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An Initial Study of the Sensitivity of Aircraft Vortex Spacing System (AVOSS) Spacing Sensitivity to Weather and Configuration Input ParametersA study has been performed on a computer code modeling an aircraft wake vortex spacing system during final approach. This code represents an initial engineering model of a system to calculate reduced approach separation criteria needed to increase airport productivity. This report evaluates model sensitivity toward various weather conditions (crosswind, crosswind variance, turbulent kinetic energy, and thermal gradient), code configurations (approach corridor option, and wake demise definition), and post-processing techniques (rounding of provided spacing values, and controller time variance).
Document ID
20000025078
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Riddick, Stephen E.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Hinton, David A.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2000
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.15:209849
NASA/TM-2000-209849
L-17947
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 576-02-11-11
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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