Flight Management and Procedure Design ("Flugroutenplanung")

The current module description is available via MOSES [3] as well as on the information page of Faculty V for the master's programme in Aerospace Engineering.

Lecture

• Overview and principles of aircraft navigation (inertial navigation, air data systems, Terrestrial navigation, satellite-based navigation, performance-based navigation, approach and landing systems, RNAV)
• Definition of navigation performance parameters (accuracy, integrity, availability and continuity) and overview of the navigation requirements for various applications and phases of flight
• Earth geometry, coordinate systems, maps and aircraft reference systems
• 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 requirements, protection areas, minimum obstacle clearances, terminal area fixes, turn protection)
• Flight procedure design: Departures and approach procedures (Conventional navigation, Area navigation (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:

• Design, Coding, and FMS implementation of a departure procedure
• Design and software development of a flight management system
• Implementation of the software FMS into a flight simulation environment

All teaching materials are offered via the ISIS platform.

ISIS online course: Flight Management and Procedure Design SoSe2022 [4]