AoC number

101

Primary domain

ANS

Secondary domain

OP

Description

Increased future traffic may require redesigning the airspace or dynamically altering the airspace boundaries to accommodate variable aircraft equipage, weather, and ATC procedures. Landing and approach procedures design, coupled with integrated onboard technologies, providing unprecedented access and visibility with safer lower minimum altitudes (for example, augmented global positioning system approaches).

Potential hazard

  1. Conventional hazard analysis impractical. For example, it is simply not possible to exhaustively enumerate all of the possible interactions that might take place in a dynamically reconfigured airspace of any considerable complexity.
  2. Constantly changing airspace points for traffic situations
  3. Coordination issues with other facilities
  4. Controller awareness of constantly changing airspace boundaries
  5. Possible frequency issues at ATC facilities

Corroborating sources and comments

DEFINING CRITICAL POINTS FOR DYNAMIC AIRSPACE CONFIGURATION

Shannon Zelinski NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 94035, USA

Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Air Traffic Management (ATM)-Airspace Project

Harry Swenson Principal Investigator NASA Ames Research Center

Richard Barhydt Co-Principal Investigator NASA Langley Research Center

Michael Landis Project Manager NASA Ames Research Center

FAA National Airspace and Procedures Plan 2010

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~tpk/issc04c.pdf

Last update

2017-08-28

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