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The Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS), Higher Volume Operations (HVO) Off-Nominal OperationsThe ability to conduct concurrent, multiple aircraft operations in poor weather, at virtually any airport, offers an important opportunity for a significant increase in the rate of flight operations, a major improvement in passenger convenience, and the potential to foster growth of charter operations at small airports. The Small Aircraft Transportation System, (SATS) Higher Volume Operations (HVO) concept is designed to increase traffic flow at any of the 3400 nonradar, non-towered airports in the United States where operations are currently restricted to one-in/one-out procedural separation during Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC). The concept's key feature is pilots maintain their own separation from other aircraft using procedures, aircraft flight data sent via air-to-air datalink, cockpit displays, and on-board software. This is done within the Self-Controlled Area (SCA), an area of flight operations established during poor visibility or low ceilings around an airport without Air Traffic Control (ATC) services. The research described in this paper expands the HVO concept to include most off-nominal situations that could be expected to occur in a future SATS environment. The situations were categorized into routine off-nominal operations, procedural deviations, equipment malfunctions, and aircraft emergencies. The combination of normal and off-nominal HVO procedures provides evidence for an operational concept that is safe, requires little ground infrastructure, and enables concurrent flight operations in poor weather.
Document ID
20050223580
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Baxley, B. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Williams, D. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Consiglio, M. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Conway, S. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Adams, C. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Abbott, T. (Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Inc. McLean, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2005
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA 5th Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO)
Location: Arlington, VA
Country: United States
Start Date: September 26, 2005
End Date: September 28, 2005
Funding Number(s)
OTHER: 23-786-10-10
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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