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The Air Traffic Capacity of Two-Dimensional Airspace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

S. Ratcliffe
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At the present day European ATC is exercised by a multiplicity of more-or-less autonomous control centres. ‘Flow Regulation’ is used roughly to match traffic demand to the capacity of the en-route ATC and of the destination airport. The ATC authority at the point of departure for a remote destination cannot however give any guarantee that the pilot will be able to follow his chosen trajectory. The filed flight plan and the departure clearance have been described as a ‘licence to get into the sky and see what happens’.

Keywords

1. Air traffic control.2. Aircraft operations.3. Flight planning.4. Simulation.
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 33 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1994

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