CAN SIGHTING REPORTS INDICATE COLLISION RISK OVER THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

It was suggested that by collecting sighting reports from North Atlantic air traffic and cross-checking them against air traffic control records it would be possible to identify some reports as due to aircraft straying from their cleared track, and that changes in the rate of such 'validated�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lloyd, D. E.
Other Authors: ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT FARNBOROUGH (UNITED KINGDOM)
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1967
Subjects:
Commercial and General Aviation
Safety Engineering
*AVIATION ACCIDENTS
PROBABILITY
FLIGHT PATHS
AIR TRAFFIC
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
AVIATION SAFETY
ATLANTIC OCEAN
PILOTS
ATTENTION
JET AIRCRAFT
UNITED KINGDOM
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0669829
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0669829
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Summary:It was suggested that by collecting sighting reports from North Atlantic air traffic and cross-checking them against air traffic control records it would be possible to identify some reports as due to aircraft straying from their cleared track, and that changes in the rate of such 'validated' reports could be used to detect changes in lateral collision risk, i.e. in the risk which is due to loss of lateral separation. The object of the study is to examine whether the number of validated sightings is large enough to enable an important change in collision risk to be detected within a reasonable period of time. The answer appears to be no. (Author)

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