Brainstorming AgendaCase
ATCS WJHTC ANG-E62
Distribution Center/Warehouse
Inter-City eCTOL
Inter-city eCTOL
Cargo Delivery
Medical Transfer
Cross-metro Transfer
Airport Transfer
Cargo Delivery
Fleet Operations
Air Ambulance
RuralOperations Urban Operations On Demand Air-Taxi
Develop validated AAM System Architectures that define a safe, certifiable, and scalable system
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission
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NASA LaRC & FAA WJHTC Partnership
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024Legend Integrate WJHTC and LaRC Labs
Validate Labs AAM RDT&E
Align with NASA and FAA Agency priorities and milestones
GOAL: Evolve the established baseline TBO Integrated Test Environment (TITE) Live, Virtual, and Constructive Environment (LVCE) to be ready for future RDT&E aimed to operationalize evolving concepts and technologies. **
• Align with NASA and FAA Agency priorities and milestones (2019-2024) • FAA UAS Implementation Plan & UAS Research Plan • Desire to review and align to National Campaign (Grand Challenge)
• Integrate FAA WJHTC and NASA LaRC Labs • NASA Langley: Air Traffic Operations Lab (ATOL) & City Environment Range Testing for Autonomous Integrated
Navigation (CERTAIN) • FAA WJHTC: TITE LVCE Air Traffic Management and UAS Traffic Management Systems
• Utilize KACY AAM Use Case to drive validation and accreditation of the LVCE • Regional extensible traffic management systems, ATM systems, airspace and procedures • Micro Weather analysis and validation
• Once established incremental validation of the higher fidelity LVCE will support AAM RDT&E • Validate Concepts of Operation • Airspace and Procedures validation
• Vertiport requirements validation • Aircraft testing (e.g. ACAS, eVTOL)
Crawl
Walk
Run
NOTE: **See RDT&E in the TITE (ITEA June Journal)
Mission Planner ATOL Lab UAM Flyer ATOL LabCERTAIN Lab
Out-The-Window (OTW) Tower Lab and KACY UAS LabSTARS System
Capability/TSAS Lab
Evaluating UAM Microscale Weather Hazard Variability – Atlantic City Proof of Concept UAM Candidate Route Structure and Vertiports: Atlantic City
Courtesy of FAA Technical Center Microscale Weather Simulations
Inner Grid Area 3 m Resolution
• Use JOULES model to simulate microscale weather variability – downtown ACY area
• 3 m horizontal and vertical wind conditions around buildings, street canyons, potential UAM vertiport areas
• Demonstrate range of micro-wx variability and potential hazardous scenarios given 3 unique scenarios:
1. Afternoon sea breeze Winds 120º at 12 knots
2. 11 pm (overnight) land breeze Winds 270º at 6 knots
3. Afternoon, stiff southwesterly winds Winds 220º at 18 knots
Afternoon, Stiff SW Winds
Afternoon Sea Breeze • 7.5 m altitude • 30 min animation (3 sec updates)
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Atlantic City AAM Ecosystem Use Case TC1
Why Atlantic City? • Familiarity with airspace • Proximity of airport to Atlantic City • William J. Hughes Technical Center
capabilities • National Aviation Research and Technology
Park
City • Designed to promote procedural separation • Establishes possible performance based
airspace design over the city of Atlantic City • Designed to potentially evaluate
communication/coordination between ATC, PSU, USS.
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Atlantic City AAM Ecosystem Use Case TC2
Jitney Route • Internal to the city of Atlantic City • Designed to provide efficient access to visitor
destinations while avoiding residential neighborhoods
• Makes note of AtlantiCare Regional Trauma Center
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Regional Aerodrome (Vertiport) Access • Establishes regional corridors with 2 metering
fixes • Potential to evaluate 4D trajectory
authorization with RTA • Establishes transitions between metering
fixes and jitney route
sUAS Operations • Establishes Waterway Inspection Loop (bottom left) • Establishes USCG Pitch and Catch Loop (top right) • Potential to evaluate information exchanges
between PSU and USS
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MITRE Micro-Wx Collaboration
Atlantic City AAM Ecosystem Use Case
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