Avtech signs two contracts in the key wake vortex area with a Middle Eastern airport

The first is on establishing the strength of wake vortex encounters experienced on approach to land, and the second is assessing potential wake vortex effect on aircraft flying new approach procedures. The main objective of these projects is to analyze and provide data which will contribute to increase capacity and throughput while maintaining or improving safety levels at a major airport.

The wake strength project focuses on determining the strength of wake encounters from aircraft flight data. This will be the first time that reported wake encounters will be analyzed in an objective form by a commercial product to determine the significance of each wake encounter. The wake strength analysis will be performed with data from the aircrafts’ “black boxes”.

The second project is to perform wake vortex analysis of new approach and landing procedures through Monte Carlo simulations where a large amount of simulated flights, over one million, will be performed. The simulations will be able to determine the wake generation, transportation and decay based on a variety of factors including traffic mix and weather, amongst others.  Unintended consequences with the new procedures can be predicted even before the first flight is flown.
“This particular region is in a unique Mesometeorological zone which effects wake transport and decay. Our tools will allow for greater insight in to the behavior of wake within the terminal environment,” said  Avtech ME CEO Lars GV Lindberg.

Both projects have started and it is targeted to be completed by December 15th 2012.