THE ALBATROSS PROJECT – A EUROPEAN INITIATIVE FOR MORE ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY FLIGHT OPERATIONS

Abstract

The project ALBATROSS unites multiple initiatives from relevant stakeholder of commercial aviation to demonstrate in a European scale the current potentials to save emissions in the normal every day’s operations. All parties are working together in multiple exercises. Each one has the potential to reduce emissions and each one has already passed the phase of experimental research. ALBATROSS as a Very Large Demonstration (VLD) seeks answers to the key question how all those activities can be streamlined and what can be the overall benefit. In this paper the methodology of ALBATROSS is highlighted and insights in several exercises are given. Since the number of exercises is high, a special focus is put on one exemplary exercise, which is conducted by SWISS and DLR and demonstrates the use of the LNAS-system (Low Noise Augmentation System) to follow fuel efficient trajectories in the approach phase from top of descent down to the stabilization altitude.