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The Development of Programs for Minimum-time Tracks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

L. Bennett
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Extract

This paper outlines the phase of the flight planning operation in which airlines calculate minimum-time tracks for the purpose of advising oceanic control centres of their needs prior to the definition of the Organised Track System (OTS). The results are based on 12- and 24-hour forecasts for a level of 250 mb and aircraft assumed to fly at a constant Mach number of 0·82. The problem is defined in terms of a network in which the domestic route structure on each side of the North Atlantic is represented.

Type
Meteorological Aspects of North Atlantic Flight Tracks
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 1982 , pp. 499 - 501
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1982

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