Validation of the FAA LAAS Specification Using the LAAS Test Prototype (LTP)

John Warburton, Dave Lamb

Abstract:	The FAA Satellite Navigation Ofllce, AND-730, is currently developing a specification for the Local Area Augmentation System (LAM) Ground Facility. The FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center has been tasked with validation of that specification. As part of the validation, the LAAS Test Prototype (L’IT) was used a series of tests to evaluate LAAS performance at operational airports selected from the LAAS Requirements Document (IO). This paper summarizes the LTP ground and flight tests conducted in Pennsylvania at the Philadelphia International Airport, in Alaska at the Fairbanks International and Cold Bay Airports, and in Minnesota at the Mimeapolis International AiIPort. Over 240 approaches were conducted using the system described in this report. Approaches were completed in both an FAA-owned Boeing 727, and a Falcon 20 owned by the National Research Council of Canada. The results of the LTP tests have shown that the current LAAS architecture is capable of providing the level of service required by the LAAS RD.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 11th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1998) September 15 - 18, 1998 Nashville, TN
Pages:	157 - 166
Cite this article:	Warburton, John, Lamb, Dave, "Validation of the FAA LAAS Specification Using the LAAS Test Prototype (LTP)," Proceedings of the 11th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1998), Nashville, TN, September 1998, pp. 157-166.
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