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4 Wake Turbulence Program Plan
Pages 60-65

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... The committee therefore decided to roll prioritization and program planning into a single step. In Figure 4-1, each challenge is accompanied by a bar stretching from the short term to the long term.
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... Term Medium priority Level of effort Safety analysis and hazard Supporting Studies boundaries Gather event data System-level study of benefit Enabling Research Weather forecasting Modeling Measurement CSPA procedures Capacity Enhancers Spacing Recategorization Systems Dynamic spacing Visualization Alleviation FIGURE 4-1  Recommended priority and level of effort for wake turbulence challenges. Height of each bar indicates level of effort.
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... Capacity enhancers are focused projects that address specific changes to the air transportation system. Each follows the same general pattern: At the start, there is a low level of effort associated with performing studies of tradeoffs and evaluating potential concepts.
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... Recommendation 4-1. Wake turbulence research should pursue multiple tracks, with the goal of a robust, stable program that will provide continuing reductions in aircraft spacing as new ideas and technologies are developed and proven.
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... Recommendation 4-2: Wake vortex research priorities should be periodically reexamined.
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... MIT's Lincoln Laboratory has researched localized weather prediction and built operational prototypes of FAA systems. Companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northwest Research Associates and universities like George Mason University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Naval Postgraduate School have also been involved.
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