The Efficacy of Operational Bird Strike Prevention
Isabel Metz (TU Delft - Control & Simulation, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
Joost Ellerbroek (TU Delft - Control & Simulation)
Thorsten Muhlhausen (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
Dirk Kügler (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
Stefan Kern (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
J. Hoekstra (TU Delft - Control & Operations)
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Abstract
Involving air traffic controllers and pilots into the bird strike prevention process is considered an essential step to increase aviation and avian safety. Prior to implementing operational measures such as real-time warning systems, it is vital to evaluate their feasibility. This paper studies the efficacy of a bird strike advisory system for air traffic control. In addition to the potential safety benefit, the possible impact on airport operations is analyzed. To this end, a previously developed collision avoidance algorithm underlying the system was tested in fast-time Monte Carlo simulations involving various air traffic and bird densities to obtain representative conclusions for different operational conditions. The results demonstrate the strong safety potential of operational bird strike prevention in case of precise bird movement prediction. Unless airports operate close to their capacity limits while bird abundance is high, the induced delays remain tolerable. Prioritization of hazardous strikes involving large individuals as well as flocks of birds are expected to support operational feasibility in all conditions
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