Input foundations

Aircraft and engines

Open aircraft and engine properties for performance calculations.

Trajectory observations

Flight data can be analyzed for phases, fuel, and emissions.

Navigation context

Airport, waypoint, distance, bearing, and route geometry helpers.

Atmospheric state

Altitude, speed, vertical rate, and temperature drive model outputs.

Research scenarios

Inputs for simulations, fleet studies, inventories, and optimization.

Open model data

Aircraft, engine, drag polar, kinematic, and navigation datasets.

Dynamic models

Thrust, drag, fuel flow, and aircraft performance envelopes.

Kinematic models

Speed, altitude, vertical-rate profiles, phase behavior, and WRAP.

Emission models

CO2, H2O, SOx, soot, and NOx estimates from fuel and engine data.

OpenAP

Open aircraft performance model and Python toolkit for air transportation research and simulation.

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Functional outputs

Performance quantities

Thrust, drag, speed, altitude, vertical rate, and limits.

Fuel and emissions

Fuel flow, fuel burn, and pollutant emission estimates.

Trajectory generation

Synthetic trajectories from aircraft and kinematic parameters.

Phase identification

Detect climb, cruise, descent, level, and other flight segments.

Simulation and optimization support

Reusable performance building blocks for ATM studies, emissions inventories, traffic simulation, and OpenTOP trajectory optimization.