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Costing Air Traffic Control Deviations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

V. W. Attwooll
Affiliation:
(Royal Aircraft Establishment)

Extract

1. Introduction. An air traffic control system maintains adequate separation between aircraft by requiring some aircraft to deviate from the paths which they would otherwise follow. In the absence of such deviations it must be assumed that civil transport aircraft would choose to operate at the most economical combination of airspeed, track and altitude (within the limits set by inaccuracies of weather prediction); A.T.C. deviations therefore involve economic penalty to the operator. It is important to assess the magnitude of such penalties for two reasons:

(a) To provide a yardstick by which to compare different A.T.C. systems.

(b) To give a measure of how much might justifiably be spent on new systems and equipment, to enable separation standards (and hence the penalty of deviations) to be reduced without reduction in safety.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Crown Copyright 1966

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