A Flight Trajectory Model for a PC-Based Airspace Analysis Tool
August 2003
Ralf Mayer, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
This paper documents a method for rapid generation of aircraft
flight trajectories. Rapid generation of flight trajectories is
important for simulation models of air traffic that involve large
numbers of aircraft, especially if complex interdependencies exist
between flights and short simulation run times are required.
The model provides detailed flight trajectories by synchronizing the
discrete events that define model trajectories with significant events
of typical flight operations and methodically adjusting the size of
variable simulation time steps. This paper introduces the concept of
flight phases to group flight events and their associated trajectory
parameters and presents a discrete-event flight trajectory model that
is based on aircraft performance and centered on piloting procedures.
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