Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum for General Aviation Aircraft

971494

05/01/1997

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General, Corporate & Regional Aviation Meeting & Exposition
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Documented herein are the methods utilized to meet the performance requirements for operation in RVSM airspace. The test aircraft was equipped with an instrumented static system and a trailing cone static reference. The trailing cone was calibrated in-flight using laser range and radio altitude tower fly-by methods. Determination of the static source error and development of the static source error correction was accomplished on the instrumented aircraft. Verification of RVSM performance was accomplished on a standard production aircraft utilizing the instrumented aircraft as a pace. Additionally, test data were also obtained with perturbations on the skin near the static ports. The measured pressure changes were correlated with computational predictions. These data were used to develop skin waviness tolerances for the area around the static ports.
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https://doi.org/10.4271/971494
Pages
14
Citation
Veley, M., Levy, D., and Fiore, E., "Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum for General Aviation Aircraft," SAE Technical Paper 971494, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/971494.
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May 1, 1997
Product Code
971494
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English