NASA's free flight experiments designed for pilot flexibility

Credit: NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER
NASA researchers are completing the first phase of testing a "free-flight" operating concept that will allow pilots with specially equipped aircraft to choose their own flight paths and provide their own en route separation. Called Distributed Air/Ground Traffic Management (DAG-TM), the program has...

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