Extended Distance and Automation Trial of Flight Management Computer Parallel Offset

Author

DeArmon, James ; Goodrich, Dale ; Herndon, Albert A. ; Spelman, Joseph ; Woodward, Floyd ; Somerville, Caption Donald ; Williams, Ardyth ; Tarbert, Bruce

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Aviation Syst. Dev., Mitre Corp., McLean, VA

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The flight management computer (FMC) parallel offset is a procedure which allows a pilot to turn left or right of course in order to intercept a track which is parallel to the originally-cleared route of flight. The offset route is established by way of an input parameter to the FMC. "L5.0", for example, would establish a 5 NMI offset to the left of the original route. The aircraft may turn back to course later or simply continue on the offset path until receiving vectors in the terminal arrival area. The entire procedure is subject to air traffic control (ATC) approval

Keywords

air traffic control; aircraft computers; FMC parallel offset; air traffic control; flight management computer; offset route; terminal arrival area; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Automation; Concurrent computing; FAA; Radar tracking; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

25th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2006 IEEE/AIAA

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0377-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0378-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2006.313711

Filename

4106257