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TRSB Microwave Landing System Demonstration October - November 1977 Program at Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 h,lrt 10. FAA~D.78.14. flPrJ1- Nff- 'lr~/7 FAA WJH rechnical Center 1IIII HllIId 111111 IWIIIIIIIIII 00092406 TRSB t MICROWAVE LANDING SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AT JORGE NEWBERY AEROPAROUE BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA • .~ . • oelllBER . NOVEMBER 1977 FINAL REPORT I Document is available to the U.S. public through the National Technical Information Service, j Springfield, Virginia 22161. Prepared for U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Systems Research & Development service Washington, D.C. miOO NOTICE The United States Government does not endorse products or manufacturers. 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'd'" cubIc Vlrdl 0.78 cubic Il181lr, m' • TEMPERATURE (O""! ~ TEMPERATURE (nBCII ·c Celaiu' 9/6 (tilen F,"'rlrl"-;t " temperltu,. ,dd321 l~rllure " Fe"'''ro'''elt &/9 (eftill' C,I,iu, 'c m lemPl!'l1u", Iubtreetillll leonperalure ., gF 32 tB.G tl2 3ZI -= - COO I ' ~ I I 10 I I I 80 I ~ , I~O, I I 1~0. , I 2C;C ./ -·f, 1. 1 ., In t 2,54Ie••",111, F,,, ~rI'4' '''CI "cn~e",ul1l'nd me,e dela,led lables, &ee NBS MISC. Publ. 286. ----­ i I I if' I "I ~! ~ -.0 -20 20 040 &0 eo 100 Un,ts W"gnts 1"(1 "'MIUreS. p"". &2.25. SO Cllalog Nc. C13.1 0:2B5. I ! ... gc 57 gc TECHNICAL REPORT STANDARD TITLE PAGE I. R.,ort No. 2. Go.emm..n Acc•••ion No. 3. Recipi...,', Cotalol No. FAA-RD-78-l4 4. Titl...cI Subtitl. 5. R_D... TRSB Microwave Landing System Demonstration October - November 1977 Program at Buenos Aires, Argentina 6. P.fo,.I". C?'lonizaflon Code 7. .....Ito••h) 8• P.rfa,.ing O" ..I&09lon R~rt No. • FAA-NA-78-l4 9. P.,forming 0lanlzotion Nam...d Addr... 10. Work Unit No. Federal viation Administration • National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center II. Con'roct or Gront No. Atlantic City, New Jersey 08405 075-725-710 13. Typ. of Report ond P.riod Coy.r.cI 12. Spon ••,ing Agency Name and Acid,... Final Report U. S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Oct. 17, 1977-Nov. 4, 1977 Systems Research and Development Service 14. Sponl.ril', A,.ncy Code Washington, D.C. 20590 15. SuppleMentary Hot•• 16. Ab.tract The FAA is conductin.t operational demonstrations of several TRSB 'hardware con­ figurations at selecte airports in the United States and abroad. Thie first demon­ stration was at Cape May, NJ, using the Small Com.munity System. The second demonstration was at Jorge Newbery Aeroparque in Buenos Aires, Argentina, using the Basic Narrow TRSB collocated with UHF/VHF ILS. This system was deslgned for azimuth proportional guidance +40 degrees about the runway centerline, elevation proportional guidance from-l degree to 15 degrees, and coverage of at least 20 nautical m.iles 10 heavy rain. Most of the flights were in the NASA B-737 terminal configured vehicle which recorded TRSB angle data, together with groUnd tracking data from. radio theodolite and of-tical television tracking e%.uipm.ent. Flight profiles included com.pletely couf. ed, descending, curved fict s to a close-in intercef-t (2.0 and 1.1 nautical mi es) of runway center- line, fo lowed by autoland and rol -out on runway. Results using the Baslc Narrow System are: 1. Can be collocated without adversely affecting ILS perform.ance. 2. The TRSB system. required m.inim.al site preparation and installation time. 3. Signal guidance quality appeared to be excellent. 4. Guidance signal qqality Wlthin ICAO requirem.ents for a "full capability system." and requirem.ents. for FAA proposed "TRSB Autoland." . 5. The system. demonstrated near total im.rnunity to interference from propeller modulation. 6. With precision DME, the system can be used for noise abatement procedures including segmented elevation angles and curved approaches. 11. lCo., Word. 18. Distribution S,......... Argentina Document is available to U. S. public TRSB through the National Technical Inform­ MLS tion Service. Springfield, Virginia 2216l Basic Narrow System 19. Security ca•••u. (.f thi' ~t) 20. Security Cla.'i'. (of thiS page) 21_ No. of p .... 22. PricI Unc4ssified Unclassified 36 F... DOT F 1700.7 1.·••1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 DISCUSSION z Equipment Installation Z Airborne Installations 3 Demonstration 4 • Performance Assessment 5 SUMMARY OF RESULTS 7 APPENDIX • ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Figure 1. Airport Layout 12 Figure 2. TRSB MLS Small Community System Displayed 13 , Figure 3. Bendix Basic Narrow Elevation Installation 14 Figure 4. TRSB Siting Diagram on Runway with ILS 15 • Figure 5. Demonstration Van 16 Figure 6. T39 USAF Jet 17 Figure 7. NASA B-737 18 Figure 8. NASA B-737 on 3° Approach 19 Figure 9. NASA B-737 Curved Approach 20 Figure IDA. Sample Data Plot 21 i Figure lOB. Sample Data Plot 22 Figure 11. Strip Chart Sample 23 Figure 12. Guarani Prop Modulation ILS Localizer 24 and TRSB Azimuth Figure 13. Guarani Prop Modulation ILS Glide Slope 25 and TRSB LIST OF TABLES PAGE Table I. TRSB Accuracy, Phase III Systems 8 Table II. Summary Statistics 9 Table III. Schedule of Events 11 INTRODUCTION During the past several years, extensive engineering evaluation and flight testing has been accomplished on Time Reference Scannfug Beam (TRSB) Microwave Landing System (MLS) equipments at the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (NAFEC), Atlantic City, New Jersey, and at the Auxiliary Naval Landing Field, Crows Landing, California. TRSB MLS is the United States and Australian candidate submission to ICAO as the future all-weather landing system which would replace ILS. In March 1977, the ICAO All Weather Operations Panel (AWOP) recommen­ ded TRSB to the Air Navigation Commission (ANC) as the preferred candi­ date system for international adoption. This decis ion by AWOP followed a 15-month period of intensive and comprehensive assessment of all competing microwave landing systems conducted by a working group of international experts under the sponsorship of the A WOP. The ANC forwarded the A WOP recommendations to the ICAO Council, whereupon the Council has scheduled a worldwide meeting for April 1978, to address the question of selecting the new international standard for an approach and landing system to replace ILS. Meanwhile, the Council has encouraged proposing States to conduct demonstration and flight trials at operational airports. Accordingly, the FAA has developed a program to conduct operational demonstrations of several TRSB hardware configurations at selected air­ ports in the United States and abroad. These demonstrations are intended to show that TRSB is a mature system that meets the full range of require­ ments from general aviation use to scheduled air carrier operations, for Category I to Category III autoland, under good or poor airport siting conditions, and under extreme weather conditions. Additionally, these demonstrations provide opportunities for representatives and officials of the international aviation community to gain first hand knowledge of TRSB MLS, and assess its applicability to their particular requirements. The first operational demonstration of TRSB away from NAFEC was conduc­ ted at a small community airport in Cape May, New Jersey. At the invita­ tion of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Argentina Government, the second demonstration was conducted at Jorge Newbery Aeroparque in Buenos Aires during a meeting of the OAS Aeronautical Telecommunications Group. Aeroparque is a joint use municipal airport, in the midst of a densely populated area, with a large number of scheduled commuter flights. 1 Runway 13/31 is the sole runway. lt is 2100 meters (6900 feet) long and 40 meters (131 feet) wide (Figure 1). Normal low visibility approaches are to Runway 13 which is served by a UHF /VHF instrument Landing System (ILS). DISCUSSION Two TRSB MLS equipments were displayed at Aeroparque. The Small Community System manufactured by Bendix, which had been demonstrated at Cape May, New Jersey, was installed on temporary platforms at the Military Aviation Museum for static display (Figure 2), and the Basic Narrow TRSB also manufactured by Bendix, was collocated with the lLS on Runway 13 for demonstration flights using U.
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