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7.2.3 Third test campaign

In the third test campaign, for the first time, the FASTER planning tool was used

because of the presence of several adjacent flight stripes. In addition, the latest

modifications to the waypoints management made to the FASTER EM management

software were used. So the tunnel was not completely displayed since the beginning but it

was updated every 5 s, taking into account the actual position (Section 6.5.6).

The target area (shown in Figure 106) was defined using the Google Earth interface

and then the trajectory was computed using the Matlab script Faster_planner.m. The

planned trajectory was already presented in Chapter 5 (Figure 42-Figure 49).

Figure 106: Brisighella target area

The aircraft took off from the Villafranca airfield near Forlì and after a transfer of 15

min reached the target area. The transfer flight was planned with only 4 waypoints

leaving the graphical interface to generate a newer guidance tunnel according to the pilot

maneuvers. A climb was planned between the starting point (15 m AMSL

) and the target

area entrance waypoint (700 m AMSL). A mountain area had to be over flown in the

proximity of the target area, and strong ascending air streams were present making

AMSL stands for Above Mean Sea Level

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