Research Article

Study on the Optimization Method of Point Merge Procedure Based on Benefit in the Terminal Area

Table 3

Experimental results.

ModeAverage flight time (min)Average fuel consumption (kg)Pollutant emission (kg)Noise effect scope (km2)

STAR11.825863.899.74187
Preliminary scheme11.654908.139.04149
Optimized scheme11.564623.258.65132