Patent ID: 9613537
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G08G

Claim:
1. A Multiple Landing Threshold Aircraft Arrival system for landing aircraft of different weight categories on a single runway during initial, intermediate and final approach comprising: an Approach and Landing Conformance Monitoring System component configured to determine conformance or deviance of aircraft from flight paths assigned to them and to alert operators of deviance of aircraft from an assigned flight path; an Approach Guidance System component configured during initial approach to the airport to fly a leading heavier aircraft on a lower flight path such that the actual path flown by the aircraft is vertically separated from the path flown by another following lighter aircraft flying on the upper path of the pair of lower and upper paths; and said Approach Guidance System component configured during final approach and landing to direct a leading heavier aircraft to fly a lower final approach flight path to a landing threshold for that aircraft or a following lighter aircraft to an upper final approach flight path with a glide slope the same as or steeper than that of the lower flight path to a displaced landing threshold, such that the actual flight path of each aircraft is vertically separated from the path flown by another aircraft having the same components that is directed to fly the other path of the pair of lower and upper final approach flight paths.