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NASMOD - Military Aviation Simulation Model
Overview
The Military Aviation Simulation Model (NASMOD), is a powerful, flexible, PC-based tool for analyzing a wide range of military aviation operational alternatives. This sophisticated simulation model, along with the expertise to effectively apply it, is uniquely available from ATAC.
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Applications
NASMOD produces highly defensible projections of real-world results for a wide variety of military airfield and special use airspace operational scenarios, including:
- Pilot training requirements, including airfields, airspace, instructors, syllabus, aircraft type, maintenance, fuel, and operating costs
- Airfield and airspace capacity under proposed operational alternatives
- Impacts of special use airspace changes on both military and civilian operations
- Impacts of the interaction between military and civilian aircraft operations
- Impacts of using alternative aircraft types to meet training and operational objectives
Features
NASMOD was originally developed as a derivative of the FAA-validated SIMMOD™ airport/airspace simulation model and retains SIMMOD™'s civil aviation simulation functionality. Other features include:
- Military-specific operations such as touch-and-goes, field carrier landing practice (FCLP), air-ground range utilization, air-refueling, formation and adversarial multi-platform operations
- Single base or multi-airfield and Special Use Airspace (SUA) regional coverage
- Detailed mission profiles including in-flight decision-making
- Daily flight schedules based on recurring and unfulfilled training requirements
- Simulation periods of one or more years to capture all cyclical trends
- Detailed airspace and ground operations including visual and instrument approaches and departures, hot refueling pits, ordnance loading areas and much more
- Unique helicopter, V/STOL, and Unmanned Aerial System operations
Benefits
When considering complex alternatives with far-reaching impacts, NASMOD provides a defensible analysis that can identify inefficiencies or problems before they occur and achieve potentially significant cost-avoidance. The in-depth simulation of a myriad of operational and environmental factors produces results that go far beyond the intuitive.
- Alternatives analysis supports smart decision-making
- Capacity analysis proves capabilities and supports requirements
- Enables efficient matching of infrastructure to needs
- Detailed operations analysis supports air traffic control manning requirements
- Operations data used as a basis for NEPA-required noise and environmental analyses of changes in base loadings, facility improvements, and introduction of new aircraft types.
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