Estimatinon of Landing Stopping Distances From Flight Data
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02-2010 |
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Andrew Cheng, PhD. van Es, G.W.H. van der Geest, P.J. Hackler, L. |
van Es, G.W.H., van der Geest, P.J., Cheng, A.Y. & Hackler, L. (2010) Estimation of Landing Stopping Distances From Flight Data, DOT/FAA/AR-09/46, Air Traffic Organization Operations Planning Office of Aviation Research and Development Washington, DC
Abstract
The need for improved capacity at airports to accommodate the rapid growth of air traffic has led to the investigation of operational landing performance as a safe and feasible means to increase the traffic flow. While the capacity issue becomes important, it is imperative that the increase in capacity does not let safety decline. A key task is to investigate the airplane landing performance to provide operations safety guidelines for reducing the risks of incidents and accidents associated with new technologies and procedures. For this, a clear knowledge of the day-to-day landing operations is required. The objective of the present study was to derive and analyze methods for calculating the full-stop landing distance from flight operational data. In total, eight methods have been defined to calculate the ground distance from actual landing data. All these variants have been implemented in the processing software. After reprocessing all available cases, the statistical properties and possible correlations of each variant were investigated and presented. Based on these results, it was concluded that ground stopping distances obtained with the maximum instantaneous deceleration approach may be considered as the most useful or realistic candidate to serve as an indicator for the actual airplane landing performance.
