Environment
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- E-Change Program
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- Aircraft Emissions
- Management of Aircraft on the Ground
- Predicting and Managing Delays
- Monitoring Australia's Airspace
- Continuous Descent Approaches
- Green Approaches
- Flextracks
- Computer Simulation
- Airspace Management from Gate to Gate
- The Benefits of Gate to Gate Management
- How Air Traffic Management has Traditionally Worked
- Some Causes for Airport Delays
- The Brisbane Green Project
- The Challenge of Growth
- What is RNP?
- Environmental Savings from the Brisbane Green Project
- Sequencing Efficiency
Environmental Savings from the Brisbane Green Project
The Brisbane Green Project has shown that for a typical flight into Brisbane substantial savings can be achieved.
With a normal instrument approach, an aircraft would fly typically about 144 km, burning about 587 kg fuel.
The equivalent Green Approach is considerably shorter at 106 km and consuming only 298 kg fuel.
This is a saving of 24 miles and roughly 50% less fuel.
Using Green Approaches around Australia we could save 189 tonnes of CO2 per year. This is the equivalent to the emissions from 40,000 cars.