Abstract
A method is presented for optimizing burnt fuel and flight time of civil aircraft missions, under the scope of a full-scale free route airspace implementation as well as usage of actual environmental data, focusing on ambient temperature and pressure. A computational analysis model, using online available aircraft data is considered, for flight envelopes defined by the user, is used as the base tool. The model is validated over real flight data, before it is used as the main tool for optimization of flight missions. Flight paths are analyzed by considering both their vertical and horizontal aspect. Optimal paths are derived, for each chosen mission, through an optimization process that takes advantage of the flexibilities that become available by implementation of Free Route Airspace. Vertical flight path is shown to play very important role in achieving optimal flights, while horizontal paths also offer optimality possibilities, with a strong dependence on weather conditions.
Highlights
As a direct response to the dramatic rise in air traffic, EUROCONTROL [1] brought forth the Single European Sky act in order to tackle this century's air transportation obstacles
Dividing Europe's airspace into Functional Airspace Blocks (FABs) and later into Flight Information Regions (FIRs) regardless of national borders was the first step into a much-needed new direction
It is the aim of EUROCONTROL [1] that this way of mission planning be spread to all FABs by 2023, aiding in the process the bloom of the modern aviation industry
Summary
As a direct response to the dramatic rise in air traffic, EUROCONTROL [1] brought forth the Single European Sky act in order to tackle this century's air transportation obstacles. Dividing Europe's airspace into Functional Airspace Blocks (FABs) and later into Flight Information Regions (FIRs) regardless of national borders was the first step into a much-needed new direction. This action became the foundation on which Free Route Airspace (FRA) was born, coming to substitute the old-fashioned fixed route system, which up to that point created unnecessarily elongated missions which deviated greatly from the optimal flight path. The FRA concept has been gradually applied to FIRs across European airspace proving its many benefits daily It is the aim of EUROCONTROL [1] that this way of mission planning be spread to all FABs by 2023, aiding in the process the bloom of the modern aviation industry. Since its appearance in 2008, the free route airspace project has occupied researchers around the world, who have offered great insight in the advantages of this new tool in the hands of aerial transport
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