A Monte Carlo Analysis of the Ground Controlled Approach System

Alfred Blumstein
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Alfred Blumstein: Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., Buffalo, New York

Operations Research, 1957, vol. 5, issue 3, 397-408

Abstract: The Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) is an all-weather landing system in which a ground controller, watching the landing airplane on a radar scope, transmits maneuver orders to produce a proper approach path. By a Monte Carlo analysis of this system, it has been possible to estimate the distribution of airplane positions along the approach path, and the probability of a successful landing. Sample flight paths have been simulated by using random numbers to represent the stochastic variations in initial position, wind, controller decisions, and execution of turn orders.

Date: 1957
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