Objective Objectives and content Major airports in Europe reach saturation traffic levels at peak times where the limiting factor is the need to impose aircraft separation distances in order to avoid hazard to following aircraft caused by the presence of wake vortices from preceding aircraft. A highly desirable alternative to building new airports or runways, with their attendant large environmental and financial costs, would be to reduce separations. This could be achieved without any reduction in safety standards if it were possible to reliably detect the presence of wake vortices from preceding aircraft. An airborne eye-safe LIDAR offers the means to do this with the required level of safety. In addition, an airborne remote sensing LIDAR Doppler anemometer offers the possibility of detecting other atmospheric hazards at long range of which the most well-known is windshear. The current CEC FLAME project has demonstrated the viability of a LIDAR wake vortex detection system, including its operational aspects. This includes the development and demonstration of the core technologies and techniques for wake vortex detection, particularly the laser and signal/image processing technologies. The MFLAME task objectives are: - To extend the multifunctions applications area of the MFLAME equipment to include, in addition to wake vortex detection, dry windshear predictive detection, and to assess the predictive detection capabilities in areas such as clear air turbulence, volcanic ash, gust alleviation, mountain rotors and dry hail. - To demonstrate wake vortex detection and windshear detection by means of a series of ground and flight tests of a 2 m LIDAR system and to evaluate the other available multifunction capabilities. - To improve the techniques and technologies for a future cost effective multifunction airborne equipment (Laser/optics, signal processing). - To investigate operational aspects such as integration into the avionics system, certification issues and links with Air Traffic Management. The multifunction capability is very important to the MFLAME concept because it emphasises aircraft safety at various flight phases - not just in the vicinity of crowded airports - making it much more financially attractive to potential end-users, such as airlines. The MFLAME consortium comprises two manufacturers of airborne equipment (SEXTANT Avionique and GEC Marconi Avionics), a company specialising in Air Traffic Management studies (SOFREAVIA), a laboratory involved in air flow simulation (CERFACS), an organization for air/ground measurements and flight tests (DLR), university laboratories for processing algorithms and LIDAR simulation (UCG), and for Laser crystal research (University of Hamburg), and an organization specialised in Laser and optics simulation (INESC). For requirements definition and ATM integration of the MFLAME system, a "User Club" is attached to the project as "associated partners" to the MFLAME project. It includes Airliners, aircraft manufactures, airports, and official authorities. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processingengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraftengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensingsocial sciencessocial geographytransporttransport planningair traffic managementnatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0301 - Aeronautics Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Sextant Avionique SA Address 5-7,rue jules védrines 26027 Valence France See on map EU contribution No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHE ET DE FORMATION AVANCEE EN CALCUL SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 42,avenue gustave coriolis 42 31057 Toulouse See on map Other funding No data GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 20,münchnerstraße 20 82234 Wessling See on map Other funding No data Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address 110,rua josé falcao 4050 Porto See on map Other funding No data Quantel SA France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 17,avenue de l'atlantique 17 91941 Les ulis See on map Other funding No data SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE D'ETUDES ET RÉALISATIONS D'EQUIPEMENTS AÉRONAUTIQUES France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3,carrefour de weiden 3 92441 Issy des moulineaux See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Jungiusstrasse 11 20355 Hamburg See on map Other funding No data University College Galway Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address 90 Galway See on map Other funding No data
