TRAJECTORY-BASED OPERATIONS
November 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL, IN MONTRÉAL
It is commonsense that a proper flight plan will take account, not only of the three dimensions in which a plane moves through the air, but also its speed - and the resulting time by which it should arrive from A to B. But planning in such a way (in four dimensions - of 4D) can be a complex matter, even if it does not involve the sometimes baffling concepts of space-time posited by astro-physicists.
ICAO's 12th Air Navigation Conference supported a planned approach promoting the development of such trajectory-based operations, ...
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