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All Weather Capacity-Increasing Technologies

Domain: Gate-to-Gate
Principle Investigator: Metron Aviation

Weather is  Limiting Capacity: Chart shows monthly weather related delays in thousands from 1995-2000. The trend is a yearly increase in delays.
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 The image shows examples of paths for the safest flights avoiding weather using weather prediction information.
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Problem:

No capacity-increasing concept will fully mature without including weather reasoning.

Research:

We identify how robust weather avoidance algorithms can be included within decision support tools and displays in all operational domains and for the entire collaborative decision-making triad: AOC/ATSP/FD. We enable all-weather capacity optimization with estimated times of arrival, long- and short-term weather avoidance route planning, and traffic flow management.

Solution:

Metron Aviation integrates weather prediction and trajectory adjustments into decision support tools and interfaces in a Collaborative Decision Making system solution.

Enabling Technologies:

  • Extended CCFP predictions, ITWS, and CIWS
  • GPS-based Surveillance and ADS-B data links
  • New Roles and Responsibilities for AOC/ATSP/FD
  • Synthetic Vision Displays, Augmented Reality, Cockpit Displays of Traffic Information (CDTIs)
  • Large quantities of data/knowledge within decision support tools - over the cognitive complexity that humans can reason about

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