Engineering Proceedings, Volume 28, Issue 1

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Controller–pilot data link communications (CPDLC) is a digital protocol and part of air navigation systems where Air Traffic Control (ATC) can text an aircraft instead of engaging in voice communications. This research used a CPDLC receiver at...

Air traffic management (ATM) requires the handling big data of moving objects, such as flight trajectories. There is, however, a lack of specialized tools for trajectory-data management, where the spatiotemporal data are first class citizens. Instead...

It is well established that the climate impact of aircraft non-CO₂ emissions can be reduced by optimising flight routes to avoid climate-sensitive areas. Little research has been conducted, however, on the effect of residual emissions from nearby air...

Exposure to high levels of noise negatively affects human health. The noise produced by aircraft engines is strong enough to reach well beyond the limits suggested by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and it is estimated that the health and well-be...

To reduce delays caused by an ADS-B Message Injection attack, we propose an Air Traffic Control (ATC) level tactical manoeuvring framework for maintaining safe flight trajectories while reducing diversion from the original trajectory during the desce...

Future air mobility will consist of increased unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) traffic operating in urban areas. Currently, the lower airspace in these environments is mainly used by traffic operating under visual flight rules, particularly helicopters...

Civil aviation contributes to rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Flights carried out by private and business jets are only a very small fraction of commercial passenger flights. However, these private flights are extremely environmentally ineffi...

Aircraft manufacturers and airlines invest large amounts of money into making air travel more sustainable to reduce the effects of global warming. Extending the in-service life of aeroengines through route optimisation is one method to contribute to...

Global navigation satellite systems technology is at the core of modern air traffic navigation. Aircraft use it to estimate their position, while air navigation service providers rely on services such as automatic dependent surveillance broadcast whi...

The proliferation of open-source flight data has been heralded throughout the aviation industry, from air traffic service providers seeking efficiencies to the voyeuristic tracking of celebrity aircraft movements. However, the rise of open-source dat...

The usage of large private and business jets, from those owned by Elon Musk to Kylie Jenner and Bernard Arnault, has recently attracted considerable attention in many countries. Enabled by open and crowdsourced aircraft tracking systems based on the...

In ATC Tracking applications, the barometric altitude of measured aircraft is predominantly used as a substitute for the geometric altitude in slant range correction of Radar target reports, introducing position errors. With ADS-B being frequently av...

To date, statistical analyses of aircraft trajectories have been under-exploited in the Airspace Traffic Management (ATM) literature. One reason is the need for advanced methods to tackle the high sampling irregularities and temporal correlations tha...

An aircraft go-around is a costly yet safety critical procedure. While there are many reasons to decide that a go-around is necessary, at Hamburg Finkenwerder airport (EDHI) there is a rather peculiar one: vessel traffic crossing the approach path. A...

Building a labeled database usually requires extensive work when the labeling is not automated. This paper presents a methodology to build a labeled database of aircraft radar signature (specifically radar cross section) using the OpenSky Network dat...

In the past year, the author has been using the OpenSky ressources for teaching purposes in the context of Software-Engineering courses for undergraduates at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Challenges in using the OpenSky-Onli...

A safe integration of drone operations at very low levels, especially for beyond visual line-of-sight operations, must come with proper modeling of the mid-air collision risk at lower altitudes. In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art quantitati...

The analysis and prediction of go-arounds, also referred to as missed approaches, is an active field of research due to the go-around’s impact on safety and the disruption of the traffic flow at airports. The advent of open-source aircraft traj...