Appendix B Project Summary

Appendix A Proposal Cover Sheet

Safety Management and Human Factors Fact Sheet

The Center for Safety Management and Human Factors improves transportation safety by developing and applying innovative safety management and human factors processes and principles to our sponsors’ research and demonstration projects.

Volpe Aircraft Noise Certification Support

The technical information on certification validation and differential GPS (DGPS) validation may be of use to noise certification applicants.

Validated DGPS Systems

INFORMATION: Use of Global Position Systems (GPS) Based Time Space Position Information (TSPI) System as a Truth Source for Certification Flight Testing.

Diagram of Aircraft Tracking Geometry (Fig. 1)

Figure 1, which is an attachment to the Validation Package, is a diagram indicating important tracking geometry elements.

Coordinate Transformation from Geodetic to Measurement Frame

This document contains the procedure for transforming geodetic data to cartesian X,Y,Z.

DGPS Validation Report and Checklist

This document is a report and checklist used during the validation process for differential global positioning systems (DGPS).

DGPS Performance Requirements

This document outlines the recommendations and requirements to be followed by FAR Part 36 noise certification applicants using a differential global positioning system (DGPS) for collection of time space position information (TSPI).

Preferred File Formats for Validation Data Submittals

Since part of the validation process involves computer processing of applicants' data files, this guide provides detailed descriptions of Volpe Acoustics data file formats. Use of these formats by the applicant will help to expedite the validation process. Note that conformance to these formats...