Flight Testing of Automated Closely Spaced Parallel Approaches

As the international air traffic increases and becomes more and more complex there is a growing demand for new operational procedures. Especially the runway capacity is a limiting factor for the maximum number of flights that can be conducted on an airport. Airports with a dependent parallel runway system cannot exploit the full potential of the individual capacity of a single runway as approaching aircraft have to maintain an increased separation due to the threat of wake vortices.