General Electric: Paths of Flight

Ben: i got this tweet about some interesting stuff General Electric has that is related to aviation. Check out the full site!






Watch and enjoy. GE has put together an amazing time-lapse video of aircraft arriving and departing from various airports.
The clip is actually marketing effort to show off what the company does – designing flight paths and advanced aircraft systems to ensure safe landing and take-off.

Cinematographers for GE captured airplanes landing in a precisely orchestrated order using the company's new Required Navigation Performance (RNP) system and combined them in one shot. It's like watching the game Flight Control in real life, but with more accuracy. GE's attempting to use on-board navigation instead of ground-based radar beacons to better choreograph the landing of commercial aircraft. The goal is to reduce fuel usage, shorten flights, and lower the noise from landing aircraft by shortening the routes. It's pretty cool.
According to GE, there are 5,000 planes in the sky every hour, 50,000 operating every day, and 621 million people flying yearly. The filmmakers pointed out they had to take 13 flights and wear four security badges to get this film made.

Segment 1: Paths of Flight showcasing the future of flight path planning is Required Navigation Performance (RNP) 
http://www.ge.com/thegeshow/flight/#ch1


See Also:
Airplanes waste a lot of fuel and emit loads of CO2 during the last part of the flight - the landing. The answer could be in using more efficient ways to plan descents.
http://visualization.geblogs.com/visualization/optimized_descents/


Segment 2: Test your plane  
an educational flash-based plane builder that illustrates and explains the interaction of the 4 forces of flight depending on your design.
http://www.ge.com/thegeshow/flight/#ch2

BBC Britain from Above: Air Traffic over Britain

Singapore Changi Airport (ICAO: WSSS, IATA: SIN) Charts and maps

• Google Map
• Standard Dep Chart
• Standard Arr Chart
• Standard Approach Chart 
• Instrument Approach Chart  

also includes, Google map of

• Waypoints near WSSS
• Nav Aids near WSSS

http://www.opennav.com/airport/WSSS

http://dcaa.slv.dk:8000/icaodocs/


Various down-loadable Regulatory Documents, including the 18 Annexes by the Statens Luftfartsvæsen, Civil Aviation Administration of Denmark.

Directory:
Doc 4444 - Air Traffic Management
Doc 7030 - Regional Supplementary Procedures
Doc 7190 - Location Indicators
Doc 8400 - PANS- ICAO Abbreviations and Codes
Doc 8643 - Aircraft Type Designators
Doc 9082 - ICAO's Policies on Charges for Airports and Air Navigation Services
Doc 9432 - Manual of Radiotelephony
Doc 9562 - Airport Economics Manual
Doc 9859 - Safety Management Manual
Doc 9613 - Manual on Required Navigational Performance (RNP)
Doc 9731 - International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual
Doc 8168 - Aircraft Operations
Doc 9328 - Manual of Runway Visual Range and Observing and Reporting Practices
Doc 8585 - Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services 

Contributed by Wei Jie

AIRPORT AND AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES COMMERCIALIZATION by IATA

http://www.icao.int/icao/en/atb/ansconf2000/docs/wp26e.pdf


SUMMARY
The airline industry generally favours commercialising airport and air navigation
entities. It is concerned, however, that the process often leads to increases in the
cost base for charging purposes and thus higher user charges. The Conference is
asked to endorse the need for proper consultation and transparency during the
commercialisation process, independent economic oversight of commercialised
entities, and a neutral dispute settlement mechanism.