Federal Aviation Administration

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Federal Aviation Administration
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Purpose

• Provide an understanding of the Federal Aviation
  Administrations plans to improve the National
  Airspace System
• Pilot and FAA roles
• Historical perspective
• Next Generation Air Transportation System
  (NextGen)
• NowGen

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Federal Aviation Administration

• Safety
• Aircraft integrity
• Prevent loss of separation other a/c, vehicles,
  ground
• License pilots
• Efficiency get to where you want to go, on time
  and how you want to get there
• National Defense

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What Pilots Do

• Aviate
• Navigate
• Communicate

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Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier 1783
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Navigate

• Visually - look out the window
• landmarks, terrain, roads, bonfires, beacons
  (lights)
• Instruments
• compass, a/c state, radio signals Jimmy
  Doolittle, 9/24/29
• computers, displays Boeing 787, today

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Boeing 787 Cockpit
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Radio Navigation Aids
Glide Slope
Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range
Localizer Approach Lights
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Global Positioning System
GPS Constellation 24 Operational Satellites
6 Orbital Planes
GPS Satellite
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Communicate

• How
• Visual signals
• Voice radio
• Digital data
• With whom
• Ground
• Other aircraft
• Company
• Air traffic control

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Air / Ground Communication
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Remote Air/Ground Communications Facility
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Archie League First Air Traffic Controller St.
Louis 1929
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Air Traffic Control
Today
Newark 1935
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Next Generation Air Transportation System

• Vision 100 - Century of Aviation Reauthorization
  Act
• PL 108-176 passed in 2003
• Transform Air Transportation System
• Unique Coalition of Public and Private
  Partnerships
• Develop and integrated plan to ..ensure that the
• Next Generation Air Transportation System meets
  air transportation safety, security, mobility,
  efficiency, and capacity needs beyond those
  currently included in the FAAs Operational
  Evolution Plan. (emphases added)

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Next Generation Air Transportation System

• Congress Tasked Agencies to Form Senior Policy
  Committee
• Secretary of Transportation, Chair
• Secretary of Defense
• Secretary of Homeland Security
• Secretary of Commerce
• Director of the Office of Science and Technology
  Policy
• Administrator of the National Aeronautics and
  Space Administration
• Administrator of the Federal Aviation
  Administration
• Established Joint Planning and Development Office
  (www.jpdo.aero)
• Small and Focused Office
• Close Collaboration with Experts in Government
  and Private Sector

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Some NextGen Features in the Video

• Automated Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE)
• Automated Dependant Surveillance Broadcast
  (ADS-B)
• Area Navigation (RNAV)
• Required Navigation Performance (RNP)
• System Wide Information Management (SWIM)
• Data Communications (DataComm)

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Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
(ADS-B)
www.adsb.gov
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Area Navigation/Required Navigation
PerformanceRNAV/RNP

• RNAV/RNP Performance Based Navigation (PBN)
• RNAV
• Fully utilize capabilities of ground/space/onboard
  equipment
• Fly any desired route no need to go fix-to-fix
  (VOR-to-VOR)
• RNP builds on RNAV
• Alerts when desired performance is not met
• Performance expressed as RNP X, (X 95 accuracy
  in nmi)
• Benefits
• Reduced fuel/emissions/delays
• SAFE separation reduction other a/c, air space,
  ground obstacles
• Curved Paths

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System Wide Information Management (SWIM)

• Purpose
• Migrate applications toward a loosely coupled,
  open-distributed processing environment
• Expose data to both new and legacy applications
• Support interoperability
• Reduce unique interfaces and COST

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NextGen Data Communications (DataComm)
Transition from voice to digital data
communication
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• NextGen Gate to Gate
• VIDEO

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• NowGen

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Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
(ADS-B)
www.adsb.gov
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ADS-B Implementation

• Completed by 2013 50 states (Alaska partial),
  Guam, Puerto Rico
• Currently in operation
• South Florida
• Louisville, KY
• Philadelphia, PA
• Juneau, AK
• Gulf of Mexico

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ADS-B in the Gulf of Mexico

• Partnership
• Helicopter operators
• Helicopter Association International
• Oil/natural gas companies
• FAA
• 10,000 people daily 3,800 oil platforms
• Separation 5 nmi vs 20x20 nmi boxes
• Significant savings

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Wide Area Augmentation System
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Wide Area Augmentation System, Localizer
Performance with Vertical Guidance(WAAS/LPV)

• 1900 Approaches Published
• Horizon Air completed Part 121 approach on 12/30
  at Portland, OR (instrument landing system out of
  service)
• Horizon Air will equip 40 Bombardier Q400s with
  UNS-1Ew WAAS/SBAS-FMS (Universal Avionics)
  

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WAAS/LPV Approach Plate
NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION
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• Newark Liberty Airport
• Ground Based Augmentation System

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Purpose

• Demonstrate Ground Based Augmentation System
  (GBAS) operational capabilities in a complex
  airspace
• Combine on-board RNAV/RNP functionality
  (receiver) with GBAS for improved straight-in and
  curved path capabilities for approach landing
  to all runway ends
• Solve airspace congestion issues
• Build user base - controller pilot operational
  experience
• Reduce airspace separation between current New
  York Area Airports for more independent
  operations, including closely spaced parallel
  runways
• Lessons Learned applied to other locations

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Overview

• Government Industry Partnership
• Federal Aviation Administration
• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Continental Airlines (multiple B737-800 NG
  aircraft)
• Honeywell (ground system)
• Boeing
• Aircraft technical integration
• Assist with procedure development (Jeppesen)
• Single GBAS unit installed at Newark Airport
• Serve multiple runway ends at that airport
• Could replace multiple ILS facilities
• 48 distinct precision and complex approach
  procedures

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KEWR RNAV (RNP) RWY 29 SOUTH APPROACH (VIA 4R)
CATS A - D
RNP 0.30
2.00 NM
Preliminary HAT 443 (Based on telescope MAS)
RW29
EWRAA (FROP) GP 710
ARP
Idle descent from PFAF to touchdown

• 8260.52 WAIVERS
• 1. FROP DISTANCE
• (DEPENDING ON
• TYPE MAS EARLY
• TURN REQUIRES
• TELESCOPE)
• 2. BANK ANGLE
• FROM EWRAB 24.61
• (EXCEEDS 20)
• 3. INTMDT RF
• RADIUS FROM
• EWRAD DIFFERS
• FROM FAS
• RADIUS AT PFAFA
• WAAS OR GPS

1.00 NM
ILS 4R
EWRAB GP 2129
COL R-023
PFAFA 3000
EWRAD 3000
ILS 4R
1.20 NM
DOOIN 1700