Fuel savings through missed approach maneuvers based on aircraft reinjection

TL;DR

This paper investigates a novel approach to reduce fuel consumption during missed approach maneuvers in aircraft, demonstrating significant savings through a proposed reinjection scheme, which could benefit airline operational costs and environmental impact.

Contribution

It introduces a fast reinjection scheme for missed approach maneuvers that significantly reduces fuel consumption compared to standard procedures.

Findings

Fuel savings of 55% to 90% for A320 aircraft.

Proposed method outperforms standard missed approach procedures.

Potential for substantial environmental and economic benefits.

Abstract

Humanity is facing global challenges related to climate change, along with an energetic crisis that urgently requires optimizing any process or system able to improve global economic conditions. Taking fuel as an example, its prices are among the highest increases detected in goods of general use. In this sense, initiatives to mitigate fuel consumption are both welcome and necessary. In the aerial transportation area, fuel costs are critical to the economic viability of companies, and so urgent measures should be adopted to avoid any unnecessary increase of operational costs. In this work we study the costs involved in a standard procedure following a missed approach. In addition, we study the improvements achieved with a fast reinjection scheme proposed in a prior work. Experimental results show that, for a standard A320 aircraft, fuel savings ranging from 55% to 90% can be achieved through our proposed method.