Examining the Feasibility of Paired Closely-spaced Parallel Approaches
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‘Paired’ closely-spaced parallel approaches may enable closely-spaced runways to operate at nearvisual capacity in all weather conditions. This concept requires each trail aircraft in the pair to fly in a ‘safe zone’ in front of the lead aircraft’s wake vortex and in back of the lead aircraft’s potential blunder trajectories. This paper examines the position and length of this safe zone to understand the structure of this operating environment. The results highlight the need for an alerting system, and identify facets of procedures needed for this operation.
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