Lehrinhalte
Lecture and supporting exercises
• Overview and principles of aircraft navigation (inertial navigation, air data, Terrestrial navigation, satellite-based navigation)
• Performance-based navigation, approach and landing systems, RNAV
• Definition of navigation performance parameters (accuracy, integrity, availability and continuity)
• Overview of the navigation requirements for various applications and phases of flight
• Overview and principles of flight management systems
• Flight dynamics of fixed-wing aircraft (Point mass model, flight performance, EUROCONTROL Base of aircraft data, BADA)
• Autoflight systems modes (autopilot, autothrust, autoflight modes, vertical navigation, lateral navigation, autoland)
• Flight trajectory optimization (cost index, mission cruise performance, optimum altitude, required time of arrival)
• Flight management systems communication (ACARS, avionics interaction)
• Human machine interface design of flight management system
• General flight procedure design criteria: regulations and international requirements, protection areas, minimum obstacle clearance
• General flight procedure design criteria: terminal area fixes, curves, wind spiral, aircraft classes)
• Flight procedure design: Departures and approach procedures (Conventional and RNAV), protection areas and obstacle clearances, specific design criteria)
• Differentiation between non-precision approaches, approaches with vertical guidance, precision approaches)
• Overview and principles of ARINC424 database coding
Project:
• Flight procedure design for departure acc. ICAO PANS-OPS Doc. 8168
• Design and software development of flight management system
• Implementation of the software FMS into a flight simulation environment