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A E R O S P A C E<br />

Hazards external to aircraft<br />

• Terrain:<br />

� Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT):<br />

• worldwide, a leading cause of fatal accidents involving<br />

commercial air transports<br />

• usually during approach phase of flight (3% departure),<br />

usually while decending at normal flight-path angle<br />

• 25% VFR (esp. night time)<br />

• 65% IFR (esp. non-precision with step-down fixes)<br />

� currently lacking: flight deck info in intuitive <strong>for</strong>mat<br />

ref.: D. Carbaugh, S. Cooper: “Avoiding Controlled Flight Into Terrain”, Boeing Airliner, April-June ‘96, pp. 1-11<br />

ref.: D. Hughes: “CFIT task <strong>for</strong>ce to develop simulator training aid”, AV&ST, July 10, ‘95, pp. 22, 35, 38<br />

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