NASA NTRS · 19810000179
Flight-Management Algorithm for Fuel-Conservative Descents
Abstract
Federal Aviation Administration has developed an automated time-based metering form of air traffic control for arrivals into terminal area called local flow management/profile descent (LFM/PD). LFM/PD saves fuel by matching airplane arrival flow to airport acceptance rate through time-control computations and by allowing pilot to descend at his discretion from cruise altitude to metering fix in an idle-thrust, clean configuration (landing gear up, flaps zero, speed brakes retracted).
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Knox, C. E., Cannon, D. G.. 1982-11-01. Flight-Management Algorithm for Fuel-Conservative Descents. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19810000179
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