April 23-24, 2009 Advanced Aerospace Conference (Montreal) “Emerging Technology Enhances Aviation Safety & Security While Providing Cost Reduction” 1 of

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Emerging Technology Provides Cost Reduction with

Enhanced Aviation Safety & Security

Sy and Leslie Jae Lenell Levine web page: www.safelander.com email: [email protected]


EMERGING AVIATION TECHNOLOGY MAKES ITEMERGING AVIATION TECHNOLOGY MAKES ITVIABLE AND DESIREABLEVIABLE AND DESIREABLE

TO UTILIZETO UTILIZE

ONE ONBOARD PILOTONE ONBOARD PILOT AND AAND A

REMOTELY LOCATED COPILOTREMOTELY LOCATED COPILOTFOR:FOR:

COST REDUCTIONCOST REDUCTION SAFETYSAFETY SECURITYSECURITY RELIABILITYRELIABILITY


Emerging Technology Provides Cost Reduction with Enhanced Aviation Safety & Security

Reduce piloting costs by permitting a single onboard pilot and a remote copilot (that can safely provide the backup control for a plurality of aircraft).– A single remote-pilot can concurrently provide the backup for and safely

fly a plurality of airplanes using well known aircraft spacing/separation.– Utilizes highly-qualified remote-pilot to safely fly an aircraft in congested

air space, via ciphered radio telemetry to the aircraft and air traffic controllers.

– Permits the remote-pilot/copilot to control/fly/land an operational aircraft just as if he/she were the onboard pilot.

Reduce 9/11, Helios (FLT. 522-2005,121 fatality,B-737)/Payne Stewart(1999,Lear Jet, 5 fatality) Decompression crashes, etc.– When a plane substantially deviates from its approved flight plans, it is

presently possible to have a remote-pilot/copilot located in a secure, high-fidelity, virtual-reality aircraft simulator fly the plane to a safe landing at a sparsely populated airfield. The cost reduction by eliminating a 9/11 type crash would more than pay for the entire system and its operation for ten years.

– Planes that deviate onto potentially fatal runways can be stopped.


Emerging Technology Provides Cost Reduction with Enhanced Aviation Safety & Security (Cont.)

Reduce costly runway expansion programs. Provides enhanced tarmac visibility and situation awareness aboard the

aircraft and to the traffic controllers. Unifies and simplifies air traffic control and pilot displays and makes them

more comprehensive. Eliminates the present half cup full system where neither the controllers or

the pilots have shared the necessary information to prevent crashes. Reduces delays and permits higher traffic density on existing runways. Enhances tarmac safety.

Reduce aircraft operating costs. Decreases fuel utilization. Increases aircraft payload (reduced weight). Decreases avionics maintenance (less avionics and mechanical interfaces).


Reduce the costs and problems associated with the recovery and utilization of onboard flight data via real-time telemetry of the digital flight data. – Digital flight data is safely stored, in real-time on the ground computer’s

memory for post flight analysis.– Digital Flight Data recorder aboard the aircraft is for data redundancy.– Permits Recorders to be used for automatic checkout of the aircraft prior to

takeoff during a flight, and post flight.

Reduce FOQA costs and its latency period;– All data is automatically telemetered to the ground in real-time for processing

and distribution. Provides the necessary real-time digital-data to open the door to knowledge based 4-dimenstional trajectory Air Traffic Management (ATM), aeronautics and navigation.

– Minimizes scheduled engine maintenance by real-time tracking of engine utilization.

Reduce insurance costs by making the plane and airports safer and securer.

Emerging Technology Provides Cost Reduction with Enhanced Aviation Safety & Security (Cont.)


Emerging Technology Provides Cost Reduction with Enhanced Aviation Safety & Security

Has many advantages over the current day onboard-only dual pilots approach, since the remote-pilot/copilot isn’t subject to loss of oxygen/decompression, extreme G forces, temperature, smoke, passenger disturbances and terrorists. – The ground-based cockpit virtual-reality simulator minimizes

problems associated with pilot disorientation, poor visibility, weather, runway selection and ground incursions, which have resulted in numerous fatal accidents.

– From a safety standpoint, the remote-pilot/copilot can communicate directly with flight operations, emergency and security personnel, ATC/ATM as well as with the aircraft manufacturer’s design/engineering experts on how best to handle an aircraft operation problem thereby preventing the loss of life.

Utilizes present state-of-the-art communication security, communication technology, and data storage to make flying safer, securer and more economical.

Provides a safety and security technology bridge to the future use of unmanned cargo aircraft (UCA).


FIGURE 1. COMMUNICATION SYSTEM OVERVIEW

AIRCRAFT THAT CAN BE REMOTELY CONTROLLED

GLOBAL SATELLITE TWO WAY CIPHERED DIGITAL DATA

COMMUNICATION LINK

REMOTE COPILOT IN A SECURE AIRCRAFT

SIMULATOR (VIRTUAL REALITY COCKPIT)

ATC/M, WEATHER, MAP, TERRAIN & SECURITY DATA TWO WAY SECURE GROUND CIPHERED DIGITAL DATA LINK

SIMULATORPROCESSOR


Sensor Multiplexer Transceiver Video DataAcoustic Data

Advisory System

GPS/GLONASS Receiver

Performance and Control Sensor Data

GPS/GLONASS Navigation Satellite

Global Satellite Two-Way Secure Ciphered Digital Data Communication Link

Aircraft That Can Be Remotely Piloted

Remote Pilot Electronic Interface (FCU, ILS, AUTOPILOT INTERFACES)

FIGURE 2. AVIONICS SYSTEM


FIGURE 3. TWO-WAY CIPHERED DIGITAL DATA & VOICE COMMUNICATION LINK

CGBSCentral Ground-Based Processing Station


COM. SATELLITE CAPABILITY/ YEAR 2008 2006 2004 2000

NUMBER FLTS/DAY (GROWTH 2.5%/YR.) 38,896 37,944 35,280 33,600

AVERAGE FLIGHT TIME IN MINUTES 95 95 95 95

DFDR DATA RATE IN WORDS/SEC/AIRCRAFT 128 128 128 64

DFDR DATA WORD LENGTH IN BITS 12 12 12 12

DFDR DATA RATE (BITS/SEC/AIRCRAFT) 1,536 1,536 1,536 768

TOTAL DATA RATE FOR ALL OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT (NOTE: LESS THAN 8000 AIRCRAFT IN OPERATION – SKY OR TARMACK) IN MEGA-BAUD

12.288 12.288 12.288 12.288

USING 2X (SHANNON) MULTIPLICATION YIELDS THE TOTAL DATA RATE IN MEGA-BAUD

25 25 25 25

DAILY STORAGE FOR ALL AIRCRAFT EASILY FITS ON A SINGLE PC DISC. IN GIGA-BYTES

100 100 100 100

TABLE 1.BASIC DATA STORAGE AND RATES25 MEGA-BAUD AND STORAGE 100 GIGA-BYTE/DAY


Aircraft Warnings and

Cautions

Antenna Control & RF and UHF Interface

(Cipher, Anti-Jam &

Anti-spoof Controller)

Aircraft Simulation

ProcessorData

Storage

Air Carriers and Aircraft

Manufacturers Communication

Module

ATC Module

REMOTE PILOT

SECURE

AIRCRAFT SIMULATOR

ENHANCED SAFE AND SECURE

“BLACK BOX”DATA

GROUND BASED

DISPLAY & CONTROL

FIGURE 4. CENTRAL GROUND-BASED PROCESSING STATION (CGBS)


FIGURE 5.GROUND-BASED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

ProcessorProcessor

ATC/M Module

Air Carriers and Aircraft

Manufacturers Communication

Module

MapDatabase

WeatherDatabase

TopographicDatabase Air Carrier and Aircraft

Manufacturer Facility

Emergency & Maintenance

Warnings/ Cautions

Simulations

Air Carrier &Aircraft Manufacturer Facility

1

N

En - route ATC/M

TRACON ATC/M

1N

1N

SAFELANDER(REMOTE PILOT CAPABILITY)

SECURE AIRCRAFT SIMULATOR


COLOR CODE TRANSLATOR AIRCRAFT GREEN RED BLUEFUSELAGE PLANE MOVING STOPPED -------ENGINE HIGH THRUST OFF LOWBRAKE ------ ON ------- ESTIMATED

COLLISION POINT

COLLISION TRAJECTORY

PROJECTION

TRANSLATOR

DOWN UP

LANDING GEAR --

LANDING GEAR DOWN- BRAKE ON

Note: The 583 fatality Tenerife crash was head on. This pictorial is a generic representation and shows aircraft orthogonal on the runway.

FIGURE 6. GENERIC REPRSENTATION OF THE 583 FATALITY TENERIFE CRASH & OTHERS

SAFELANDER PROVIDES AUTOMATED COLLISION AVOIDANCE ALERTS ATC/M & CAS ENHANCED CAPABILITY DISPLAY


FIGURE 7. TENERIFE, ET AL., NO MORE

COLOR CODE TRANSLATOR AIRCRAFT GREEN RED BLUEFUSELAGE PLANE MOVING STOPPED -------ENGINE HIGH THRUST OFF LOWBRAKE ------ ON -------

PROJECTION SAFE TRAJECTORY

PROJECTION SAFE TRAJECTORY

TRANSLATOR

DOWNUP

LANDINGGEAR --

LANDINGGEARDOWN-BRAKEON

Note: The 583 fatality Tenerife crash was head on. This pictorial is a generic representation and shows aircraft orthogonal on the runway.

SAFELANDERPROVIDESASAFETRAJECTORYDISPLAYATC/M&CASENHANCEDCAPABILITY


A FATAL CRASH IN THE GROUND INCURSION FAMILY IS THE 79 FATALITY 10/31/00 SINGAPORE AIRLINE’S FLIGHT 006

The 21st Century Aviation System controller and the pilot would have full visibility display of the plane going onto the wrong hazardous runway way long before the fatal accident occurred. The controller would then provide manual and automatic alerts to the pilot of the problem. These alerts would have probably prevented the needless loss of lives. If these alerts to the pilot failed, the controller would shut the plane down to prevent the fatal accident.

The system, not the pilot’s error, killed these passengers. We have allowed ignorance and a dark age autopsy mode to solely exist. Most errors or problems need not result in fatal accidents.

CLEARED FOR RUNWAY 05L

FATAL

RUNWAY 05R TAKEN

FIGURE 8. FATAL TARMAC CRASHES ARE SIMPLY UNNECESSARY AND ARE PREVENTABE


Flt 5191 should have gone down the 7003 foot Runway 22

Flt 5191 erroneously went down the 3500 foot Runway 26

FIGURE 8-A. Comair Flight 5191 Fatal Crash On Aug. 27, 2006 Killing 49 People (First Officer James Polehinke Was The Sole

Survivor)

SAFELANDER would have prevented this crash by displaying to the pilot in real-time the safe trajectory

This is a recurring tarmac crash that was readily preventable. It was due to a fatal flaw in the traffic control shared information system and not pilot error.


FIGURE 9. SAFELANDER CAS DISPLAY

PROJECTED COLLISION TRAJECTORY BASED ON AIRCRAFT TRACK

VECTORS

• VELOCITIES ( Vn,Ve, Vh)

• PRESENT POSITIONS

• PROJECTED POSITIONS

TRANSLATOR

DOWNUP

LANDINGGEAR --

NOTE: ONE LANDING GEAR IS DOWN

ESTIMATED COLLISION POINT

COLLISION

PROJECTION

SAFE

TRAJECTORIES

LANDING GEAR

15 MINUTES OF FUEL REMAINING

FLASHING PROBLEM ICONS


FIGURE 10. SAFELANDER PROVIDES AN AIRCRAFT DATA SUPERHIGHWAY (SIMILAR TO THE INTERNET)

THAT RESPECTS AN AIR CARRIER’S PRIVILEGED DATA

GPS SATLEO DATA LINK SAT

CGBSONLY AC1 DATA ONLY AC2 DATA

A B C D

A,B,C,D,... DATA

PRIVILEGED AIR CARRIER CIPHERED DATA

ATC/M &CAS DATA

AC1/P1

AC2/P1

P1 P2 P1 P2

AC# = AIR CARRIER (1,2,...) P# = PLANE (1,2,...)


0.00

200.00

400.00

600.00

800.00

1000.00

1990 1992 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008

AVERAGE $ COST PER PLANE PER AVERAGE FLIGHT(AVG. FLT. TIME = 95 MIN.)

$cost/plane/avg.flt.

2008 ESTIMATE $9.1/FLT.

YEAR

FIGURE 11. CHRONOLOGY OF SATELLITE PER FLIGHT COMMUNICATION COSTS


RAFT RAFT RAFTTotal Total US Operators US Operators Total Total US Operators

FATAL ACCIDENT TYPE/QTY Fatalities %Fatalities Fatalities %Fatalities Fatalities %Fatalities FatalitiesControlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) 2396 32.01% 312 19.68% 479 17.04% 62 - CFIT Only On Approach 957 12.79% 0.00% 191 6.81% 0Loss of Control In Flight 2228 29.77% 482 30.41% 1114 39.62% 96In Flight Fire 760 10.15% 340 21.45% 152 5.41% 68Sabatage 607 8.11% 254 16.03% 546 19.43% 229Mid-air Collision 506 6.76% 0 0.00% 101 3.60% 0Hijack 306 4.09% 38 2.40% 275 9.79% 34Ice and/or Snow 162 2.16% 57 3.60% 32 1.15% 11Landing 128 1.71% 3 0.19% 26 0.91% 1Windshear 119 1.59% 37 2.33% 36 1.27% 11Fuel Exhaustion 113 1.51% 0 0.00% 23 0.80% 0Other Unknown 111 1.48% 17 1.07% 22 0.79% 3Runway Incursion 45 0.60% 45 2.84% 5 0.16% 5Rejected Take Off (RTO) 3 0.04% 0 0.00% 1 0.02% 0

TOTAL FATALITIES 7484 100% 1585 100% 2812 100% 521% REDUCTION IN FATALITIES 62% 67%

RAFT RAFT RAFTFatal % Fatal US Fatal US % Fatal Fatal % Fatal US Fatal

FATAL ACCIDENT TYPE/QTY Accidents Accidents Accidents Accidents Accidents Accidents AccidentsControlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) 36 26.47% 4 11.76% 7 15.32% 1Loss of Control In Flight 38 27.94% 11 32.35% 19 40.43% 2In Flight Fire 4 2.94% 2 5.88% 1 1.70% 0Sabatage 5 3.68% 1 2.94% 5 9.57% 1Mid-air Collision 2 1.47% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0Hijack 8 5.88% 1 2.94% 7 15.32% 1Ice and/or Snow 5 3.68% 3 8.82% 1 2.13% 1Landing 9 6.62% 1 2.94% 2 3.83% 0Windshear 3 2.21% 1 2.94% 1 1.91% 1Fuel Exhaustion 7 5.15% 0 0.00% 1 2.98% 0Other Unknown 14 10.29% 6 17.65% 3 5.96% 1Runway Incursion 4 2.94% 4 11.76% 0 0.00% 0Rejected Take Off (RTO) 1 0.74% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0

TOTAL FATALITIES 136 100% 34 100% 47 100% 8% REDUCTION FATAL ACCIDENTS 65% 78%

THE YEARS 1987 THROUGH 1996 (NOTE: DOESN’T INCLUDE 3000 DEATHS IN 9/11/2001)

TABLE 2. WORLDWIDE AIR CARRIER FATALITIES AND FATAL ACCIDENTS


US AIRLINE SAFETY3 YR. ENSEMBLE SLIDING AVERAGEFATALITIES PER 100 MILLION MILES

0.005.00

10.0015.0020.00

YEARS

FATA

LITI

ES

INCLUDES ALL 9/11 FATALITIES

Average = 1.73 Median = 1.89

Average = 4.02 Median = 1.89


WITHOUT SAFELANDER IT WILL RECUR


WITH SAFELANDER WE HAVE A COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY


















Table 3. Back-up Material 9/11/2001

Notice that the departure and crash times would have permitted a single remote pilot in a ground-based simulator to take real-time control of each aircraft and sequentially land them at sparsely populated landing sites:

On September 11, 2001 the following occurred:

AIRCRAFT_ CAR. FLTDEPARTURECRASH SITE FATALITIES

BOEING 767 AAL 11 7:59 AM 8:46 AM WTC 92 BOEING 767 UAL 175 7:58 AM 9:03 AM WTC

65 BOEING 757 AAL 77 8:10 AM 9:43 AM PENTAGON 64

BOEING 757 UAL 93 8:44 AM 10:10 AM PA. 44

A total of 265 died aboard aircraft and about 2700 died on the ground.

The cost of the disaster was estimated at over 10 billion dollars which is more than five times the estimated 2 billion dollars required to make SAFELANDER operational.


In ConclusionEmerging Technology Provides Cost Reduction with


aircraft payload and fuel economy by reducing aircraft weight and avionics;

homeland security of the public and its edifices; – prevents the recurrence of 9/11 type disasters;– prevents unauthorized aircraft from flying into

restricted airspace; airport efficiency, utilization and automation by

automatically providing all of the data necessary for enhanced safe visibility;– through-put (the number of daily takeoffs and

landings an airport; can safely accommodate)– prevents ground incursions.

Increases:




situation awareness to the pilot/s and controllers using simple unified real-time displays that show all of the necessary data required for aircraft safety;

ADS-B utility and economical justification; the real-time digital-data required for safe and secure

4-dimensional ATC/M and free-flight; safety of flight;

– prevents decompression disasters and pilot error crashes;

– allows for the use of simulations and expert systems to prevent aircraft problems from turning into fatal crashes;

Increases (Continued):


In Conclusion



the cost of flying; the need for expensive runway expansion programs; aircraft crashes; hijacking; the number of aircraft that fly unauthorized into

restricted airspace; aircraft weight; piloting and maintenance personnel costs; aircraft avionics costs; aircraft purchase costs; insurance costs; the need to recover flight data recorders;

Decreases:




time and money spent on flight recorder recovery and recorder maintenance;

FOQA costs and its latency period;– all data is automatically telemetered to the ground

in real-time for processing and distribution; the number of and ambiguity of avionics and ATC/M

displays;– position, heading, attitude, breaking status, engine

status, landing gear status, fuel remaining, etc. are now available & clearly displayed;

voice communication bandwidth and the speech comprehension ambiguities that have led to crashes;– provides a good portion of the safety related data

automatically in usable display and alert forms;

Decreases (Continued):


In Conclusion



costly runway expansion programs by providing enhanced tarmac visibility;

flight delays by safely decreasing aircraft separation; aircraft fuel cost per pound of payload by eliminating

items unrelated to payload; the maintenance costs for aircraft avionics and

mechanical systems by having less of them; aircraft purchase costs by eliminating items unrelated

to payload; and insurance costs and liability claims.

Decreases (Continued):


Some References & URL’s Safelander

– http://safelander.com/ The Remote Aircraft Flight Recorder and Advisory Telemetry System, RAFT (Patented),

And It's Ability to Reduce fatal Air Accidents By 78%While Enhancing Air Space Capacity, Operational Efficiency and Aircraft Security

– http://www.ntsb.gov/events/symp_rec/proceedings/authors/levine.pdft New Statistics Show Need To Improve Air Safety Record

– http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_47_13/ai_57788793 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (PATENT NUMBER SEARCH):

– http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm “Safelander” 7,099,752 Lenell & Levine August 29, 2006 “Remote, aircraft, global, paperless maintenance system”5,974,349 Levine October 26, 1999 “Remote aircraft flight recorder and advisory system” 5,890,079 Levine March 30, 1999

AIEE/IEEE/SAE Digital Avionics Conference (DASC) Nov. 1998 “The Remote Flight Recorder …” *

– htpp://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/5955/15955/00739808.pdf?arnumber=739808 AIEE/IEEE/SAE Digital Avionics Conference (DASC) Oct. 2007 “An Onboard Pilot & Remote …” *

– htpp://www.ieeexplore.ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4391923

NOTE: * Both DASC papers won the best session paper awards.

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