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General aviation flights are always task-oriented and thus have more maneuvering than transportation flights. These complex trajectories have intrinsic difficulties to fit in the current common used flight plans, although which is suitable for transportation flights. A task-dependent flight plan is proposed to address this issue. The proposed flight plan can provide the general aviation operators, pilots and the safety administrators of the airspace a better description and interpretation of general aviation flights at the planning stage. By exploiting this kind of flight plan, a conflict risk assessment method is also proposed, aiming to quantitate the conflict risk level for a general aviation operation airspace. This method introduces uncertainty by employing time variance for the flight plans’ operation. Simulation results demonstrate that this proposed method is capable of providing measurements of conflict risk of the airspace as well as operational advisories.
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This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1633107), National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFB0502405), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of CAUC (3122016A003), and Research Initiation Grants of CAUC (2011QD04S).
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Zhang, Z., An, L., Wang, X., Wang, P., Han, P., Wu, R. (2020). A Task-Dependent Flight Plan Conflict Risk Assessment Method for General Aviation Operation Airspace. In: Liang, Q., Wang, W., Liu, X., Na, Z., Jia, M., Zhang, B. (eds) Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. CSPS 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 571. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9409-6_130
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