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Although properly equipped aircraft are capable of landing in conditions with nearly zero visibility, no onboard facilities are available yet, that guide the aircraft while vacating the runway and finding its way along the taxiways to the apron and the gate. As a result airport capacity reduces significantly in poor visibility conditions and queues may start to form in the air. This paper introduces a research program which aims at demonstrating a concept to allow the pilot to move the aircraft more efficiently under low visibility conditions than by visual means only. This concept comprises the exocentric, spatially integrated presentation of the taxiway relative to the current aircraft position on the aircraft's Electronic Flight Instrument System. The paper presents a preliminary system design including ground based and airborne systems. Furthermore, a simulation plan to verify assumptions, the concept and the associated system design is discussed. A low cost demonstrator is described which will be used to perform initial system verification. After this phase, implementation of the demonstrator in the Delft University laboratory aircraft is planned. |
