RAMFA 1a - Validationreport

Abstract

The Institute of Flight Guidance is one of the leading research facilities in air traffic management. As one part of this research new concepts for airspace structures are developed. Among others DLR designed an airspace structure to mitigate the advantages of 4D-FMS Point-Merge arrival routes with convenient trombone structures within the projects FAGI and flexiGuide.

The project “Rudimentary Arrival management on Flexible Airspaces” (RAMFA) examines the problem of these complex merge point structures on behalf of a most simple controller assistance. While other DLR projects (FAGI, flexiGuide) assume that air traffic controllers need a high-sophisticated arrival management tool with broad bandwidth of functionalities, RAMFA will support the controller only with a sequencing display. Thereby the sequence of arriving aircraft can be estimated, but actions to rearrange this sequence cannot be derived from the system.

This document will describe the validation approach of RAMFA, including the projects idea, experimental design, verification and the data analysis. In the end a first conclusion will be taken out of the retrieved data.