Purpose

In the aerial transportation area, fuel costs are critical to the economic viability of companies, and so urgent measures should be adopted to avoid any unnecessary increase in operational costs. In particular, this paper addresses the case of missed approach manouevres, showing that it is still possible to optimize the usual procedure.

Design/methodology/approach

The costs involved in a standard procedure following a missed approach are analysed through a simulation model, and they are compared with the improvements achieved with a fast reinjection scheme proposed in a prior work.

Findings

Experimental results show that, for a standard A320 aircraft, fuel savings ranging from 55% to 90% can be achieved through the reinjection method.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this work is the first study in the literature addressing the fuel savings benefits obtained by applying a reinjection technique for missed approach manoeuvres.

中文翻译：

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通过飞机回注节省复飞时的燃油

目的

在航空运输领域，燃油成本对企业的经济生存能力至关重要，因此应采取紧急措施以避免不必要的运营成本增加。特别是，本文讨论了复飞操纵的情况，表明仍然可以优化通常的程序。

设计/方法论/途径

通过仿真模型分析了复飞后的标准程序所涉及的成本，并将其与先前工作中提出的快速回注方案所实现的改进进行了比较。

发现

实验结果表明，对于标准的A320飞机，通过回注方法可以节省55%至90%的燃油。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，这项工作是文献中第一个研究通过应用回注技术进行复飞操作所获得的燃油节省效益的研究。