Trajectories

Trajectories in AEIC are defined as the operation profile of the aircraft starting at \(914\,\text{m}\) (\(3000\,\text{ft}\)) above the departure airport and ending \(914\,\text{m}\) above the arrival airport. All operations below \(914\,\text{m}\) relative to the departure/arrival airport is classified as LTO operations and are represented using ICAO Annex 16 Volume II time-in-modes. AEIC assumes that a negligible amount of fuel is burned during these operations.

AEIC currently only supports a trajectory simulation method which is very similar to the legacy (AEIC v2) trajectory model. In the future, support for additional trajectory models will be added. Possible additions include more dynamics-driven non-trapezoidal trajectories, trajectories closer to real flight tracks based on ADS-B data, and optimized (horzontal, vertical, speed) trajectories.

• Trajectory data
• Trajectory builders
• Trajectory stores