InFlight™

A Flight Track Monitoring System that enables advanced visualization, analysis and reporting of airport flight operations. This software monitors compliance with noise abatement departure procedures,  runway usage, and responds to noise issues in the surrounding communities and assists in airspace analysis. Flight tracks are collected from one of many supported radar systems and stored in a relational database in four dimensions (X, Y, Altitude and Time) along with flight identification.

These can be viewed over a base map in two or three dimensions. Flight tracks can be selected for analysis by time-of-day, arrival/departure mode, runway, airline, aircraft type, or any combination. Graphical and tabular exporting functions interface easily with external tools such as Microsoft Office.

Noise Abatement Flight Path Procedures

Gate analysis is an effective tool for monitoring arrival and departure procedures in and around the airport. Gate computations produce the following measurements:

• Flight track identification
• Time of penetration
• Altitude, latitude, longitude
• Deviation from center of gate
• Compass heading
• Gate penetration graphs offer a 3D view of the crossings, allowing for a more detailed analysis
  of groups of  flight tracks 

Gate crossing data can be exported to a spreadsheet for further analysis, and gate penetration graphs can be exported as a graphic for seamless integration with MS Office documents and
presentations

Analyzing Community Effects

Spheres and cylinders can be created specifying a particular airspace for study and analysis. Both
shapes can be located over any point on the map, including a house, school or any other building with
a street address. Both shapes have a user-defined radius, and the cylinder has floor and ceiling
altitudes.

Air Traffic Density Plots

Visualizing thousands of flight tracks at once yields a spaghetti display which provides very little
understanding as to where the majority of the tracks are flying. InFLIGHT is able to generate air traffic density plots as a way to extract information from a large number of flights. These density plots are a meaningful communication mechanism in dealing with community concerns, developing/modifying arrival and departure procedures, and even developing model tracks for the FAA’s Integrated Noise Model (INM).

All flight track filtering capabilities can be applied yielding density plots representing varying weather conditions and runway configurations, aircraft fleet mix differences, and day/evening/night comparisons.

Filtering

InFlight provides the ability to select flight tracks from the database using a variety of selection
parameters such as:

• Any range of dates and times
• Specific flight modes such as arrivals or departures
• Specific airports and runways
• Airline lists
• Aircraft type lists