Operational Evaluation of Steeper Final Landing Approaches

Kurzfassung

Active measures to reduce flight noise are source noise decrease (engines, high lift devices, landing gears) and increase of the distance to noise sources. Source noise decrease can be achieved by new airplane design, but also by changes in flight procedures. A greater distance to noise sources can be obtained by horizontal flight path optimization and by an increase of height. The presentation shows the results of a study which investigate safety, flyability, operational aspects and pilot workload for glide slopes with angles of more than 3.0 degrees using an Airbus A330/340 Full Flight Simulator. The study was performed by the German Aerospace Center, Institute of Flight Systems, and the Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics under contract of the International Airport Frankfurt/Main (Fraport AG).