‘Don’t try harder, try different’
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- Written by Douwe Kijvekamp, Kirsten Raaphorst, Enzo Schmitz, Vito Kluis, Peter Kollar, Lars Meijs
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By auteurs Douwe Kijvekamp, Kirsten Raaphorst, Enzo Schmitz, Vito Kluis, Peter Kollar, Lars Meijs
A research report about the next step in the design of a Future Airport
Nowadays the Aviation Industry is facing major challenges concerning safety, passenger comfort, environmental issues and congestion of air traffic in the air and on the ground. The airport design and processes have become more complex over the past 80 years and the option for further growth and expansions are getting limited by regulations and densely populated areas surrounding the airport. Therefore the airport future group has the following assignment:
What will be the roll, process and lay-out of the airport to connect passenger and aircraft in the most environmental friendly, safe and efficient way with maximum passenger comfort; and how can this concept be used for EU-subsidy (7FP) to conduct further research and development at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences?
Main purpose of this research was to create a basic document, which can be used for the 7th Framework programme subsidy application. The Aviation Industry is lagging behind the other industries that have been radically transformed during last few decades. The airport itself, as we know it today, has been designed in 1920s. Since that time, after more than 80 years of innovation, Aviation Industry was not capable to come up with new radical solutions.
The Plane Prospect
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- Written by Sander van Tienhoven and Rudy van Oostrom
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By Sander van Tienhoven & Rudy van Oostrom
The aviation industry is growing extremely fast at a close to exponential rate. The industry has been active in adopting an environmental agenda, producing environmental reports, supporting threatened species, hiring environmental managers and setting up a professorship of ‘sustainable aviation’. The question that needs to be answered is if these technological developments are sufficient to accommodate the estimated aviation growth in terms of containing the impact on the surroundings, regarding both noise nuisance and emissions.
Different rates of growth compared (aviation and the Global Environment, 1999)
NOISE NUISANCE
The main causes of the aviation industry inflicting noise nuisance are the departing and arriving aircraft. Looking at noise from departing aircraft, the options for reducing noise nuisance can be divided into those concerning the vertical plane and those concerning the horizontal plane. The procedures currently implemented for the vertical plane generally obligate the aircraft to proceed with the highest rate of climb in the first segment after take-off, minimizing the time during which noise is perceived. However, the intensity of the noise increases with this procedure, due to the engines running at a higher thrust setting, resulting in a larger amount of mechanical noise per unit of time. Since it is hard to generalize if people prefer a short but heavy exposure to noise, or rather a prolonged but less intense exposure, consultation of the local residents for the airports’ individual cases seems necessary.
Sustainable Regional Airports
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- Written by Marcelline Koning, Niels van Klink, Abdelaziz Annali, Louise Okker
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By Marcelline Koning, Niels van Klink, Abdelaziz Annali, Louise Okker
‘ To aim is not enough’
The airport that the research was conducted on is a regional airport with potential to become a sustainable showcase as a civil airport. For the formerly military airport, currently not in use, times are about to change. Environmental reports have been made, economic influences predicted and social consequences are stated.
The goal of the research is to show which options there are, and which are most applicable to different airports, especially the researched airport to implement (different) sustainable developments creating a showcase for other regional airports.
“Sustainability means using methods, systems and materials that won’t deplete resources or harm natural cycles by combining people, planet and profit in a balanced way” (Rosenbaum, 1993)
HEADS UP OR DOWN: THE IPAD AND GENERAL AVIATION
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By Michelle Bassanesi
An emerging technology in the aviation industry and the human factors implications of introducing this technology into the general aviation world.
The Apple iPad as an Electronic Flight Bag
For the past year I have been evaluating, for my own personal use, the suitability of the Apple iPad as a tablet computing device to be used as an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB).
This paper is a perfect excuse to put all my thoughts together in one place. I know that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) have published guidelines as suggested best practices to adopt a paperless cockpit and many of them contain Human Factor considerations. One of my major reasons for using an EFB would be weight and the need for less paper reference materials in the cockpit. I have watched the iPad make its way to the airline and business aircraft flight decks. I have interviewed pilots and will share their thoughts in relation to the paperless flight deck. I have also included a personal account of using the iPad whilst flying and as an observer watching other pilots use the iPad.
Outplacement of Aircraft
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By Christoph Aumüller, Leandra Boudewijn, Philippe Gadet, Reinier van der Marel, Dimitris Rath, Aviation Management, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
A large hub-airport with a strong home carrier represents usually one of the most important economic drivers for a certain region or even for a whole country. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS) is such a driver, especially for North Holland but also for the Netherlands as the fourth largest airport in Europe. Therefore it is clear that one main objective is to maintain this mainport-status also in the future. Establishing and remaining such a status of an airport is always connected to growth concerning passenger numbers and numbers of flight movements due to the worldwide growing aviation market. 
Environmental concerns like noise and CO2 pollution are more and more considered nowadays by slapping restrictions on air traffic and these are especially in the Netherlands quite strict. Therefore it is mainly the environmental capacity which is a constraint at Schiphol and not really the physical one like at many other airports in Europe. The Dutch government established a set of restrictions concerning these environmental belongings and therefore today and in the future the capacity of Schiphol is and will be limited.
The Dutch government stated that Schiphol should have on the one hand enough capacity to maintain its important hub position in Europe but on the other hand the environmental impact should be as minimal as possible. One possible and intensively discussed possibility how to succeed in this balancing act would be to divert a substantial number of flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to a regional airport elsewhere in the Netherlands. This is the nutrient medium for this research and analysis.
The primary objective of this research was to give an overview of possible consequences, advantages and disadvantages respectively if such an outplacement would occur. Also similar situations in other countries with capacity limits are compared to get an overview about which lessons could be learned and how other airports, airlines or governments have approached similar challenges. Also issues like split operations, Self Hubbing, the impact on the daily wave system of KLM and the airport and more are discussed.
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