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Height‐keeping reliability of aircraft at high altitude
Author(s) -
Cannell W. P.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
quality and reliability engineering international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1099-1638
pISSN - 0748-8017
DOI - 10.1002/qre.4680030410
Subject(s) - airframe , reliability (semiconductor) , altitude (triangle) , aeronautics , separation (statistics) , effects of high altitude on humans , product (mathematics) , low altitude , engineering , reliability engineering , environmental science , meteorology , computer science , aerospace engineering , geography , mathematics , power (physics) , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , machine learning
Increasing congestion in high altitude air routes has led to an expectation of large financial benefits from a reduction in separation standards, which will enable more aircraft to fly closer to their optimal altitude. The safety of reduced separation depends mainly on the reliability of aircraft height‐keeping, which is itself the product of a number of different airframe, instrument and pilot‐related errors. This is the subject of an international programme of studies under way in Europe, Japan and the United States. A review of studies being carried out in Europe is presented, indicating some of the problems encountered.