Diverging Engine Failure Paths on Standard Instrument Departures
Bertrand Masson, Mike Bain, John A. Page · 2015
Assessing diverging All Engine and Engine Out Paths and their impact on Flight Operations has always been a difficult task for Large Aircraft Operators. The kinematic differences between an all engine and engine failure climb, combined with complex terrain and a set of fixed guidance instructions that constitute Standard Instrument Departures has rendered this analysis at best approximate, and at worse a severe restriction on commercial payloads. The advent of robotic sampling based path planning techniques has shown that aircraft dynamics and terrain avoidance can be simultaneously satisfied. Leveraging off these path planning techniques, our research has attempted to resolve this previously intractable problem, and provide the aircraft performance engineer with high quality escape paths that combine these combinations as well as provide some insight into some unusual regulatory consequences of an Engine failure in climb.