Research on FMC Analytic Algorithm of PBN Track Transition Coding

Abstract

Airborne navigation database (NavDB) coding directly affects the result of analysis on the instrument flight procedure by the modern aircraft flight management computer (FMC). A reasonable flight track transition mode can improve the track tracking accuracy and flight quality of the aircraft. According to the path terminator (PT) and track transition characteristics of the performance based navigation (PBN) instrument flight procedure and by use of the world geodetic system (WGS)-84 ellipsoidal coordinate system, the algorithms for "fly by" and "fly over" track transition connections are developed, together with the algorithms for coordinates of fix-to-altitude (FA) altitude termination point and heading-to-an-intercept (VI) track entry point and for track transition display of the navigation display (ND). According to the simulation carried out based on the PBN instrument approach procedure coding of a certain airport and the PBN route data at a high altitude, the algorithm results are consistent with the FMC-calculated results and the actual ND results.