Sense and Avoid Radar Flight Tests

In cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) the second Flight Trials of the Sense and Avoid (S& A) Radar has been completed. The Radar has been tested within a fully capable S&A System, which combines cooperative sensors such as ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) and TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) with non-cooperative sensors such as radar. Also the Airborne Weather Radar capability was successfully tested within the flight trials. Both functions work in parallel, which is facilitated by a sophisticated radar resource management. This paper recapitulates the main design drivers of the Radar and shows the test results of the flight test trials regarding the S&A Radar function.