Senior Systems Engineer And Project Manager
CurrentSenior Systems Engineer and Project Manager supporting the Aviation Weather Engineering Division at the Federal Aviation Administration William J Hughes Technical Center. Leading several projects in support of the integration of weather information into air traffic decision making through data modeling and simulation. In the mid-term, new operational improvements and technologies will mitigate the effects of weather resulting in safer and more efficient and predictable day-to-day NAS operations. NextGen capabilities will provide a number of improvements to terminal area operations that save fuel, reduce noise, increase predictability and minimize maneuverssuch as holding patterns and delaying vectors. Enhanced traffic management tools will analyze flights approaching an airport from hundreds of miles away, acrossfacility boundaries, and will calculate scheduled arrival times to maximize arrival performance. Controllers will gain automated information on airport arrival demand and available capacity, enabling them to improve sequencing and the balance between arrival and departure rates.Information such as proposed arrival time, sequencing and route and runway assignments will be exchanged with the aircraft via a data communications link to agree on a final flight path. The final flight path will ensure that the flight has no potential conflicts, and that there is an efficient arrival at the airport, while maintaining overall efficiency of the airspace operation. With the improved precision of NextGen systems, separation between aircraft can be reduced safely. Poor-visibility conditions dramatically reduce the capacity of closely spaced runways, and the capacity losses ripple as delays throughout the airspace system. NextGen capabilities will make it possible to continue using those runways safely, by providing better-defined path assignments and appropriate separation between aircraft.