Navigation Optimisations

This chapter is a synthesis of air navigation optimisations, starting with a study of the optimal 4D trajectory search using a comprehensive objective function, which balances efficiency, safety, and air traffic capacity. A brief discussion of the algorithms is followed by an optimisation solution for multiple trajectories simultaneously, safely separated from each other. Kalman filtering is a key algorithm to solve the positioning problem in an optimal way. The Chapter ends with a complex flight trajectory optimal search applied to solve a remarkable practical problem: the reconstruction of the mysterious Malaysian 370 flight trajectory.