U.S. Air Force to expand capabilities for MDA Flight Path Safety System
Terminal Instrument Procedures are published instructions to pilots specifying a series of aircraft maneuvers that must be executed for the aircraft to transition safely from an en route airway to a runway, or vice versa, when flying by instruments. The AFTERPS-R system ingests digital terrain, obstruction and aeronautical data to build and display a virtual model of the physical environment surrounding an airport that is then used to develop a safe flight path corridor. The system does this by automatically assessing the complex rules governing the design of procedures and flagging deviations from the rules that result from the physical environment. The deviations are noted by the designer, who can then quickly make modifications to the procedures.
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