Author(s)

Weijun Pan, Zhengyuan Wu, Yingjie Duan, Qiang Zhang, Ziyi Liu

Corresponding Author

Weijun Pan

Abstract

With the rapid development of the civil aviation industry, the number of flights is increasing, the airspace is becoming saturated, flight delays are increased, and the wake turbulence separation standard is one of the main factors. This paper study the effects of different standards on the airspace capacity of the terminal area and simulates the FCFS model with real flights data to evaluate CAAC’s and FAA’s (RECAT) wake turbulence separation standards. The simulation results show that the RECAT’s wake turbulence separation standards are more efficient than CAAC’s and increase about 17% of the airspace capacity in the given case.

Keywords

Airspace capacity, RECAT, ASS, wake turbulence saparation standards