Flight Trajectory Simulation - FTS

Basics

The Flight Trajectory Simulation allows users to request a flight simulation along a given 3D route to retrieve flight time, flight progress over time along the flight path, and energy information.

Input required

Route Information

The 3D route can be defined by

1. Route asset as defined in NOVA (foreseen as FTS1)

2. LAT/LON/ALT and sent with the request (FTS2)

Aircraft Performance Information

Speeds

• Ground Speed or Air Speed Command & max speed

• Rate of Climb (RoC) and Rate of Descent (RoD)

• Endurance in seconds / minutes

Ground Speed (GS) commands are often used by multicopter drones and is the speed relative to ground. When GS is commanded the autopilot (and the simulation) of the aircraft tries to reach the target ground speed whatever the wind conditions are.

Equivalent Air Speed (EAS) commands the target speed of the aircraft relative to wind. EAS commands are often used by fixed-wing and hybrid drone systems on en-route flight where their speed is measured by a pitot tube.

Additional Information

The trajectory simulation results can take up to 30 seconds, depending on its path, length, and altitude.

The available timeframe is UTC+00 today until UTC+168h.