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Long Time-Horizons for Air Traffic Flow Planning in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

S. Ratcliffe
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In an earlier paper, the writer attempted a quantitative study of a flow-planning system for aircraft intending to fly across Europe. This paper aims to offer each aircraft a clearance giving a reasonable expectation that, throughout cruising flight at least, there will be no conflict with other traffic. Such a clearance is sometimes termed a ‘tube of flight’. Reference i assumed a pattern of traffic flying along rhumb lines, each flight having a starting position chosen at random in a region roughly the size of Europe. Flight was in a random direction and the flight path length was chosen at random from a plausible distribution.

Keywords

1. Air traffic control.2. Flight planning.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 279 - 288
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1995

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