Abnormal Errors and Aircraft Separation over the North Atlantic
In a recent paper I endeavoured to give a statistical solution of the problem of the separation of aircraft tracks with safety. In it I assumed that the distribution of errors of navigation made by the aircraft was a normal gaussian one; but I added a proviso that the effects of blunders might modif...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0373463300045811 2024-03-03T08:47:06+00:00 Abnormal Errors and Aircraft Separation over the North Atlantic Durst, C. S. 1959 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300045811 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463300045811 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Journal of Navigation volume 12, issue 1, page 41-45 ISSN 0373-4633 1469-7785 Ocean Engineering Oceanography journal-article 1959 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300045811 2024-02-08T08:34:56Z In a recent paper I endeavoured to give a statistical solution of the problem of the separation of aircraft tracks with safety. In it I assumed that the distribution of errors of navigation made by the aircraft was a normal gaussian one; but I added a proviso that the effects of blunders might modify the result. From enquiries of various navigators as to the frequency with which they considered they were likely to make blunders I gathered that with a good navigator an undetected blunder might occur on 1 per cent of occasions and further it seemed reasonable to assume that a blunder might be defined as an error greater than three times the standard error of normal navigation. These assumptions are of course quite arbitrary but they seemed to be suitable to give examples of the effect on track separation; this was done in an unpublished paper. In these examples it was supposed that aircraft flying in the same direction were using two parallel tracks distant L apart and on each track aircraft were flying at fixed intervals but quite independently of the aircraft on the other track. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Cambridge University Press Journal of Navigation 12 1 41 45 |
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In a recent paper I endeavoured to give a statistical solution of the problem of the separation of aircraft tracks with safety. In it I assumed that the distribution of errors of navigation made by the aircraft was a normal gaussian one; but I added a proviso that the effects of blunders might modify the result. From enquiries of various navigators as to the frequency with which they considered they were likely to make blunders I gathered that with a good navigator an undetected blunder might occur on 1 per cent of occasions and further it seemed reasonable to assume that a blunder might be defined as an error greater than three times the standard error of normal navigation. These assumptions are of course quite arbitrary but they seemed to be suitable to give examples of the effect on track separation; this was done in an unpublished paper. In these examples it was supposed that aircraft flying in the same direction were using two parallel tracks distant L apart and on each track aircraft were flying at fixed intervals but quite independently of the aircraft on the other track. |
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Abnormal Errors and Aircraft Separation over the North Atlantic |
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