GfL represented at BADA User Group and Conference 2018
October 2018 | Conference
The Base of Aircraft Data (BADA) is a comprehensive flight performance data set prepared by the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL), which captures flight performance parameters and associated calculation rules in detail for the implementation of a flight performance model of numerous commercial aircraft types. The flight performance data are provided by the worldwide aircraft manufacturers under specific licensing conditions. The flight performance model was designed for the simulation and prediction of flight trajectories within the framework of air traffic controller training and is therefore ideally suited for the analysis and evaluation of environmental impacts of air traffic (e.g. pollutant emissions induced by fuel consumption) as well.
At this year's conference from 17 to 18 October in Cornwall (CAN), to which GfL was invited by EUROCONTROL, numerous well-known representatives from industry and research from all over the world were present. The current status as well as future developments and potentials with regard to the application of BADA were discussed in several lectures and discussion rounds (for further information see here). The GfL contribution "Estimating aircraft emissions from radar tracks" focused on the implementation of BADA within the framework of our flight profile analysis tool Enhanced Trajectory Analysis System (ETAS) as well as current research activities in cooperation with the TU Dresden under the BMWi-funded project ProfiFuel (see also news entry January 2017). ETAS enables the evaluation and assessment of flight-specific fuel consumption and resulting pollutant emissions and has already been in operation at Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS) since 2016 (for further information see here).
