The New York Times has joined this month’s parade of general-interest news outlets looking at how fuel efficiency is bringing changes to the airline business. This article doesn’t mention ADS-B, RNAV, or RNP, but it does mention continuous-descent arrivals. It also takes a look at efficiency-improving products like winglets and new technologies in engine design. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘CDA’
January 22, 2009
Explainer: CDA at Atlanta-Hartsfield
The science and technology website Physorg.com has a brief but interesting article entitled “Continuous Descent: Saving Fuel and Reducing Noise for Airliners.” An excerpt: Proponents hope the 90-day test at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport – currently the nation’s busiest airport – will move the concept one step closer to nationwide implementation. Estimates suggest that continuous [...]
August 15, 2008
Everything you ever wanted to know about FDMS
If you want or need to understand the basic concepts underlying Flight Deck-based Merging and Spacing (FDMS), you can’t do better than this document written by John Marksteiner and Randall Bone from the FAA’s FDMS development group. It’s comprehensive, clearly formulated, and really just plain fascinating. There’s too much good material to excerpt properly, but [...]
