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Application of Electronic Aids to Control of Terminal Area Air Traffic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

S. Ratcliffe  and
S. S. D. Jones
S. Ratcliffe
Affiliation:
Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern
S. S. D. Jones
Affiliation:
Royol Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
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The ATC system must ensure the safe and expeditious movement of traffic through the TMA and down to and along the surface of the airport. There must be a plan which defines the path to be followed by each aircraft, taking account of all other proposed movements. There must also be a means of implementing this plan with adequate accuracy, or for revising it should later events make this necessary. The plan must take account of the finite accuracy with which an aircraft can navigate (using “navigation” in the broad sense of “the progress of the craft about its ways in space and time“). We will therefore discuss first the tools required for implementing any chosen plan, before discussing the planning function itself.

Type
Future Developments in the Air Transport System
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 652 , April 1965 , pp. 224 - 229
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1965

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