Go-Around Detection Using Crowd-Sourced ADS-B Position Data
National Centre for Earth Observation, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
Aerospace 2020, 7(2), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace7020016
Received: 5 December 2019
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Revised: 14 February 2020
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Accepted: 17 February 2020
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Published: 21 February 2020
(This article belongs to the Collection Air Transportation—Operations and Management)
The decision of a flight crew to undertake a go-around, aborting a landing attempt, is primarily to ensure the safe conduct of a flight. Although go-arounds are rare, they do cause air traffic disruption, especially in busy airspace, due to the need to accommodate an aircraft in an unusual position, and a go-around can also result in knock-on delays due to the time taken for the aircraft to re-position, fit into the landing sequence and execute a successful landing. Therefore, it is important to understand and alleviate the factors that can result in a go-around. In this paper, I present a new method for automatically detecting go-around events in aircraft position data, such as that sent via the ADS-B system, and apply the method to one year of approach data for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (VABB) in Mumbai, India. I show that the method is significantly more accurate than other methods, detecting go-arounds with very few false positives or negatives. Finally, I use the new method to reveal that while there is no one cause for go-arounds at this airport, the majority can be attributed to weather and/or an unstable approach. I also show that one runway (14/32) has a significantly higher proportion of go-arounds than the other (09/27).
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Proud SR. Go-Around Detection Using Crowd-Sourced ADS-B Position Data. Aerospace. 2020; 7(2):16. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace7020016
Chicago/Turabian StyleProud, Simon R. 2020. "Go-Around Detection Using Crowd-Sourced ADS-B Position Data" Aerospace 7, no. 2: 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace7020016
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