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The Potential of Lateral Offset for the Multi Sector Planner

Lateral offset is a procedure in air traffic control that sets aircraft on a parallel track along the flight plan. Despite the fact that a high percentage of the flying aircraft fleet is equipped to fly the offset automatically, it is not used in operations. Therefore it would be useful to model the potential of lateral offset and to simulate it as a single manoeuvre to get a better understanding of its performance. This study uses a simulation model covering the densest parts of European en route airspace with traffic levels forecast up to the year 2025. Different parameters of the offset manoeuvre are evaluated like the moment of start of implementation, the offset angle, the offset distance, and the duration of the manoeuvre until its return to the initial flight plan. The main performance metric that is applied is the capability to resolve conflicts and conflict clusters. The discussion targets the use of lateral offset in the Multi Sector Planner concept.