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Slide1

Distance measuring equipment(DME)

by

Hari prasanth(110051101047)

Harish Kumar(110051101048)

Haroon(110051101049)

Jagadeeshwaran(110051101050)Slide2

INTRODUCTION

Distance

measuring equipment (DME)

 is a transponder-based radio navigation technology that measures slant range distance by timing the propagation delay of VHF 

or UHF

 radio signals

.

Developed in Australia, it was invented by James 

Gerry

 

Gerrand

 under the supervision of Edward George "Taffy" Bowen while employed as Chief of the Division of

Radio physics

of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research

Organization

 (CSIRO). Another engineered version of the system was deployed by Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited in the early 1950s operating in the 200 MHz VHF band. This Australian domestic version was referred to by the Federal Department of Civil Aviation as DME(D

),

and the later international version adopted by ICAO as DME(I).

DME is similar to secondary radar, except in reverse. The system was a post-war development of the IFF (identification friend or foe) systems of World War II. To maintain compatibility, DME is functionally identical to the distance measuring component of TACAN.Slide3
Slide4

Operation

Aircraft use DME to determine their distance from a land-based transponder by sending and receiving pulse pairs – two pulses of fixed duration and separation. The ground stations are typically co-located with VORs.A typical DME ground transponder system for en-route or terminal navigation will have a 1 kW peak pulse output on the assigned UHF channel.

A low-power DME can be co-located with an ILS 

localizer

antenna installation where it provides an accurate distance to touchdown function, similar to that otherwise provided by ILS marker beacons.Slide5

Principles of OperationSlide6

Hardware

The DME system is composed of a UHF transmitter/receiver (interrogator) in the aircraft and a UHF receiver/transmitter (transponder) on the ground.Slide7

Timing

SEARCH MODE: 150 interrogation pulse-pairs per second.

The aircraft interrogates the ground transponder with a series of pulse-pairs (interrogations) and, after a precise time delay (typically 50 microseconds), the ground station replies with an identical sequence of pulse-pairs. The DME receiver in the aircraft searches for reply pulse-pairs

with the correct interval and reply pattern to its original interrogation pattern

.

TRACK MODE: less than 30 interrogation Pulse-pairs per second, as the average amount of pulses in SEARCH and TRACK is limited to max 30 Pulse Pairs per second.

The aircraft interrogator locks on to the DME ground station once it recognizes a particular reply pulse sequence has the same spacing as the original interrogation sequence. Once the receiver is locked on, it has a narrower window in which to look for the echoes and can retain lock

.Slide8

Distance calculation

A radio signal takes approximately 12.36 microseconds to travel 1 nautical mile (1,852 m) to the target and back—also referred to as a radar-mile. The time difference between interrogation and reply, minus the 50 microsecond ground transponder delay, is measured by the interrogator's timing circuitry and converted to a distance measurement (slant range), in nautical miles, then displayed on the cockpit DME display.

The distance formula, 

distance = rate * time

, is used by the DME receiver to calculate its distance from the DME ground station

.Slide9

Specification

A typical DME transponder can provide distance information to 100 to 200 aircraft at a time. Above this limit the transponder avoids overload by limiting the sensitivity of the receiver. Replies to weaker more distant interrogations are ignored to lower the transponder load.Slide10

Radio frequency and modulation data

DME frequencies are paired to VHF omnidirectional range (VOR)

frequencies. An

airplane’s DME interrogator uses frequencies from 1025 to 1150 

MHz

DME transponders transmit on a channel in the 962 to 1213 MHz range and receive on a corresponding channel between 1025 to 1150 

MHz

The band is divided into 126 channels for interrogation and 126 channels for reply. The interrogation and reply frequencies always differ by 63 

MHz

The spacing of all channels is 1 MHz with a signal spectrum width of 100 kHz.

Technical references to X and Y channels relate only to the spacing of the individual pulses in the DME pulse pair, 12 microsecond spacing for X channels and 30 microsecond spacing for Y channels.Slide11

Accuracy

The accuracy of DME ground stations is 185

m.

 It's important to understand that DME provides the physical distance from the aircraft to the DME transponder. This distance is often referred to as 'slant range' and depends trigonometrically upon both the altitude above the transponder and the ground distance from it

.

Radio-navigation aids must keep a certain degree of accuracy, given by international standards, FAA

,

 EASA, ICAO, etc. To assure this is the case, flight inspection organizations check periodically critical parameters with properly equipped aircraft to calibrate and certify DME precision.

ICAO recommends accuracy of less than the sum of 0.25 nmi plus 1.25% of the distance measured

.Slide12

Terminal DME

A terminal DME, referred to as a TDME in navigational charts, is a DME that is designed to provide a 0 reading at the threshold point of the runway, regardless of the physical location of the equipment. It is typically associated with ILS or other instrument approach.Slide13

Future

DME operation will continue and possibly expand as an alternate navigation source to space-based navigational systems such as GPS and 

Galileo

.