MODELING THE STRUCTURE OF AIR SPACE BASED ON A HEXAGONAL GRID

Novichkov Denis Vyacheslavovich, Fedko Sergey Viktorovich

The peculiarity of the airspace, from the point of view of its use, is that it consists of separate elements. The combination of these elements makes up the structure of the airspace, which can change over time both for subjective reasons – when designed by specialists, and for objective reasons – due to changes in the parameters of individual elements, which is especially typical for wartime. The paper presents a technique for establishing the structure of the airspace using a hexagonal lattice graph. The influence of the safe distance on the cell size of the hexagonal lattice is considered. The dependence between the cell size and the flight parameters of aircraft has been determined. The impact of flight speed and acceleration on the safe distance between aircraft has been assessed. Numerical experiments have been carried out to calculate the size of the hexagonal lattice, taking into account various speeds and accelerations of aircraft.

Keywords:airspace structure, elements of airspace structure, modeling processes for establishing airspace structure, safe distance.