Applications of slotted cable antennas in the instrument landingsystem

The use of slotted waveguides in the instrument landing system (ILS) is discussed, and applications of slotted cable antennas to the ILS localizer and glide slope are described. Examples are given of both existing and prospective designs intended to provide solutions for specific siting problems. Important applications are to the end-fire glide slope and category-III localizers     

LS Localizer Multipath Analysis

The scattering effect of structures on Instrument Landing System localizer signals is analyzed in this paper. A generalized computer program results which can be used to determine the reflection from surfaces of most materials and orientations for which the radius of curvature is large compared with the wavelength. For most reflecting walls, a closed form solution is used and the computation time is short. The program will enable users to determine the placement of hangars, towers, etc., in airports and to find ways to reduce their effect on localizer facilities.     

A localizer design to improve missed approach guidance

A novel VHF localizer system has been designed, built and successfully tested to provide increased reliability and safety of commercial and general aviation air transportation. Additional benefits are more precise tracks for aircraft executing a missed approach, reduced volume of the airspace needed for missed approaches, and reduced sizes of areas affected by noise. The design uses contemporary instrument landing system (ILS) hardware to provide dual independent front and back course directional localizer operation with two carriers in the receiver passband offset 4 kHz from the nominal carrier frequency. An example is given of an application and solution to an ILS problem at Reno, NV. Relevant data are presented     

Empirical analysis of airport network and critical airports

Air transport network, or airport network, is a complex network involving numerous airports. Effective management of the air transport system requires an in-depth understanding of the roles of airports in the network. Whereas knowledge on air transport network properties has been improved greatly, methods to find critical airports in the network are still lacking. In this paper, we present methods to investigate network properties and to identify critical airports in the network. A novel network model is proposed with airports as nodes and the correlations between traffic flow of airports as edges. Spectral clustering algorithm is developed to classify airports. Spatial distribution characteristics and intraclass correlation of different categories of airports are carefully analyzed. The analyses based on the fluctuation trend of distance-correlation and power spectrum of time series are performed to examine the self-organized criticality of the network. The results indicate that there is one category of airports which dominates the self-organized critical state of the network. Six airports in this category are found to be the most important ones in the Chinese air transport network. The flights delay occurred in these six airports can propagate to the other airports, having huge impact on the operation characteristics of the entire network. The methods proposed here taking traffic dynamics into account are capable of identifying critical airports in the whole air transport network.     

ILS-a safe bet for your future landings

An argument is presented in favor of the ILS (instrument landing system), the principal components of which are the localizer, which provides lateral guidance to the pilot, and the glide slope, which gives the vertical guidance. A pilot flying these signals precisely will end up over the hard surface runway with the ILS receiving antenna, wherever it is mounted on the aircraft, being about 20 ft above the touchdown point. The safety record and evolution of the ILS are examined, and a pilot's view of ILS (that of the author, an engineer who has worked with ILS since 1957 and a pilot who has used ILS safely for over 30 years) is given. System availability is discussed, and comments concerning future use are offered     

一种新型低剖面双频微带导航天线

设计了一种可以同时工作在BD2B3与GPS L1频段的低剖面微带导航天线,采用多调谐回路技术实现了天线双频工作。该天线方便调试与实现,可以应用于要求天线剖面较低的载体。     

基于聚类分析和DEA的枢纽机场评价研究

针对枢纽机场运行效率低下和盲目追求建设超前性问题,用聚类分析明晰全国枢纽机场等级,通过DEA研究枢纽机场的运行效率,并根据各机场发展需求和功能定位,提出我国枢纽机场协同发展策略.结果表明:民用机场被分成4类,一级、二级、三级枢纽分别为3、15、31个.49个枢纽机场中,北京、广州、昆明、深圳、三亚机场效率为1,为DEA有效.评价方法对改善机场的运行业绩具有参考价值,为机场的顶层设计规划提供科学的管理决策依据.     

Depeaking – economic optimization of air traffic systems

More than half of all flights in and out of Frankfurt International Airport are conducted by Lufthansa airlines, as it is one of their two major hubs. The so called hub and spokes systems allow airlines to bundle major passenger flows via connecting flights across the in- and outbound traffic. The reliability of these transfer connections, and specifically the arrival punctuality at the hub airports are crucial to the economics of the daily operation.Since Frankfurt International Airport has lately been one of the most congested airports in Europe, delays (in particular arrival delays) have increased quite significantly throughout the last years. To compensate for additional queueing time in the arrival processes, the scheduled block times inbound Frankfurt were continuously adjusted upwardly keeping the arrival punctuality (and thereby the connection reliability) close to stable. The two disadvantages of this approach have been the decrease in aircraft productivity and over-deliveries in peak hours, which in turn induce either additional block time delay or ground delay programs inbound Frankfurt.This paper introduces an iterative stochastic-simulation approach that models the vicious circle of lengthening block times and increased over-deliveries. In a second step it quantifies the operational and economical effects of depeaking the schedule and illustrates the overall growth potentials for the depeaked operation of the airport. The schedule was successfully implemented in Frankfurt in summer 2004.     

Improvement of Automatic Landing Through the Use of a Space Diversity ILS Receiving System

A space diversity method of receiving and processing ILS localizer information has been developed and flight tested. Multiple lateral ly separated antennas are used which sense the ILS signal on and around the approach path. Combining these signals suppresses ILS beam distortion produced by multipath signal interference and provides much improved guidance information to the landing aircraft control system.     

Dual-frequency distortion predictions for the Cutler VLF array

The VLF transmitting system in Cutler, ME currently broadcasts at one frequency through a two-element antenna system. This study investigates simultaneous operation at 24.0 and 17.8 kHz. Detailed nonlinear PSPICE models were generated for the system including the amplifier triodes, saturable dynamic-tuning reactors, and the closely-coupled antenna elements. The predicted behavior is in close agreement with available observations. Upper limits are placed on harmonic content, <-59.8 dBc, and intermodulation distortion, <-78 dBc.     

国际上航空气象科研新成就和新技术综述——纪念1989年世界气象日

国际民用航空事业的飞速发展,对航空气象服务提出了越来越高的要求。为了保证飞行安全和提高机场利用率,许多技术先进国家研制和使用了新的航空气象观测、预报和情报传输技术和设备。一些科学发达国家还给主要机场配备了综合自动化气象观测系统、自动化天气预报设施和自动化气象服务系统。他们研制了航空天气情报的自动传输系统,加强了自动制作航线天气预报和短时预报与航站预报的科研工作。由于计算机技术、通信条件和遥感技术的发展,这些国家的航空气象保障能力已经得到了极大的提高。     

Experiments on aeronautical satellite communications using ETS-Vsatellite

The world's first aeronautical satellite communication experiments, conducted at L-band frequencies using a commercial aircraft, are described. An airborne antenna with electronically steerable beam and communication equipment was installed in a B-747F freighter flying over transoceanic flight routes. The satellite used in these experiments is the Engineering Test Satellite-Five (ETS-V). During the test period, various experiments, such as antenna pattern measurements, transmission performances, and voice quality evaluation were conducted. As the airborne antenna is the key component for the aeronautical satellite communication system, emphasis has been placed on antenna characteristics. Its performance is found to be closely related to the fading characteristics in low-elevation areas and to transmission error performance     

机载拖曳体动力学建模及分析

在某些航空应用场景,需要通过飞行器拖曳功能性部件完成特定性任务,例如机载拖曳对潜通信天线等,在这些应用中,通过建立科学的模型和方法,准确地分析稳态、动态特性是保证拖曳体正常工作的前提条件。本文以对潜通信天线为例,建立考虑天线气动力、惯性力以及弹性力的多体动力学的机载天线动力学模型,并对该模型的稳态结果进行算例验证;对考虑载机非定常运动以及突风作用等扰动后的天线系统动态响应进行分析,并对天线断裂等极端情况进行评估。结果表明：本文所建立的模型在垂直度、天线张力等方面的分析结果较好,能够应用于航空拖曳体的稳态及动态特性分析,在对潜通信天线、加油管等系统的设计方面有一定的工程价值。     

Magnetic Signal Processing & Analysis for Airfield Traffic Surveillance

This paper presents an innovative system for airport surface surveillance based on a novel magnetic sensing technology. Ferromagnetic objects such as vehicle motors, aircraft engines, and landing gears are detected through their deformation of the Earth's magnetic field. Tests have shown that although the local changes of the Earth's magnetic field are extremely small, the proposed sensing technology is able to detect them reliably. The primary objective of the proposed approach is to provide a complementary surveillance system for existing and future Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) at large airports or a cost-effective surveillance solution for monitoring critical areas at medium and small airports. Unaffected by weather conditions, interference and shadowing effects, the system provides reliable position, velocity, and direction information without requiring any equipment in aircraft or ground vehicles. The outcome of a comprehensive market analysis is discussed and test results under real life conditions at two airports are evaluated analytically.     

Computer Simulation of VLF Power Amplifiers under Reactive Loading

Recent efforts have been made to achieve substantially increased baud rates with the U. S. Navy's very low frequency (VLF) communication system. Because of the constraints imposed by existing transmitter and antenna structures it was necessary to reexamine the operation of every major system component. Each particular VLF transmitter was subjected to an extensive theoretical analysis followed by a detailed on-site measurement program. Following a review of three major systems, Cutler, Lualualei, and North West Cape, a sufficient body of data was available to substantiate the validity of the computer-simulated transmitter analysis presented here. With this method it is possibe to predict frequency-shift keying (FSK) and minimum shift keying (MSK) performance limitations for particular VLF transmitting systems based primarily on the 0 of the antenna at the operating frequency.     

长江三角洲地区机场现状分析及优化建议

长江三角洲地区的机场分布密度已居全国之首,并且高于发达国家水平。通过分析比较当地基本情况和国外大都市的机场分布与经营状况,指出现在长三角地区机场的状况和存在的问题。在不修建新的国际机场条件下,提出了优化现有机场资源的思想和一些具体措施。     

北斗星基增强系统双频多星座服务覆盖范围评估

双频多星座（DFMC）服务已成为星基增强系统（SBAS）未来能力提升的重要方向之一，相关国际标准也将在2023年11月正式发布。北斗星基增强系统（BDSBAS）是全球范围内唯一持续播发DFMC增强服务测试信号的星基增强系统。在详细介绍SBAS DFMC服务可用性和保护级计算方法的基础上，利用实测的BDSBAS B2a增强电文对BDSBAS DFMC增强服务的一类垂向引导进近（APV-I）/垂向导航信标性能（LPV）和决断高度200英尺垂向导航信标性能（LPV-200）等级的服务覆盖率进行了初步评估。评估结果表明，当前BDSBAS DFMC增强服务能够实现对中国及周边广大区域的服务覆盖，且双系统（BeiDou navigation satellite system和global positioning system，BDS+GPS）增强服务的APV-I和LPV-200等级99%可用性覆盖率比单系统（BDS）增强服务的覆盖率分别提升16%和32%。     

飞机性能降级对民机在高原机场起飞的风险研究

我国西部地区修建了很多高原机场,飞机在高原机场会出现性能衰减,对飞行安全有影响。为提高高原机场起飞的安全性,首先,在分析影响高原机场飞机起飞性能因素的基础上,从外界环境的变化和飞机故障两个方面研究飞机性能降级对飞机在高原机场起飞的影响。其次,梳理性能降级后飞机在高原机场起飞的风险,总结高原机场起飞风险管控流程。最后,结合高原机场运行实际,制定风险管控措施,研究可知：1)飞机性能降级在高原机场安全起飞的影响更明显;2)当叠加恶劣天气后,会加深飞机性能降级的影响;3)起飞性能计算是解决飞机性能降级的重要措施;4)航空公司应制定完善的风险管控流程和措施,应对飞机性能降级后能在高原机场安全飞起,并根据实际情况持续优化流程和措施;5)做好相关运行控制团队的管理是提高工作效率的重要举措。     

Measuring the resilience of an airport network

Resilience is the ability of a system to withstand and stay operational in the face of an unexpected disturbance or unpredicted changes. Recent studies on air transport system resilience focus on topology characteristics after the disturbance and measure the robustness of the network with respect to connectivity. The dynamic processes occurring at the node and link levels are often ignored. Here we analyze airport network resilience by considering both structural and dynamical aspects. We develop a simulation model to study the operational performance of the air transport system when airports operate at degraded capacity rather than completely shutting down. Our analyses show that the system deteriorates soon after disruptive events occur but returns to an acceptable level after a period of time. Static resilience of the airport network is captured by a phase transition in which a small change to airport capacity will result in a sharp change in system punctuality. After the phase transition point, decreasing airport capacity has little impact on system performance. Critical airports which have significant influence on the performance of whole system are identified, and we find that some of these cannot be detected based on the analysis of network structural indicators alone. Our work shows that air transport system’s resilience can be well understood by combining network science and operational dynamics.     

基于地面等待策略的航班时刻规划方法

地面等待是空中交通管理中普遍应用的一种方法。根据机场实际容量的约束,从地面等待策略的思想提出了航班时刻规划专家系统,即通过修改航班时刻表中高峰时段的航班,以达到平滑交通流量的目的。最后根据全国航班时刻表,选择了10个主要的繁忙机场进行了仿真计算,验证了方法的实用性。