281 |
AIRCRAFT DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH FLIGHT PLAN DEVIATION SYMBOLOGY |
US13227191 |
2011-09-07 |
US20130060466A1 |
2013-03-07 |
Saravanakumar Gurusamy; Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Annapureddy; Santhosh Gautham; Dhivagar Palanisamy; Haricharan Reddy |
An aircraft system includes a deviation module and a visual display. The deviation module is configured to receive a flight plan with a flight segment to a waypoint, the flight plan including a lateral profile, a vertical profile, and a time profile, the time profile including a predetermined time of arrival associated with the waypoint, receive a current lateral position and a current altitude, estimate an estimated time of arrival associated with the waypoint, compare the current lateral position to the lateral profile to generate lateral deviation, compare the current altitude to the vertical profile to generate vertical deviation, and compare the predetermined time of arrival to the estimated time of arrival to generate time deviation. The visual display is coupled to the deviation module and configured to display deviation symbology representing the lateral deviation, the vertical deviation, and the time deviation. |
282 |
Method for processing a flight plan in a flight management system |
US13950701 |
2013-07-25 |
US09404752B2 |
2016-08-02 |
Romain Courteville; Bertrand Barnetche |
A method for processing a flight plan, implemented in a flight management system, consisting of at least one segment, comprises a step of determining the positions of the start point and of the end point of each of said segments constituting said flight plan by searching for at least two characteristic points of said segment, said characteristic points being explicit, fixed and non-floating, said positions being respectively characterized by a latitude, a longitude and an altitude. |
283 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING A FLIGHT PROCEDURE OF AN AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PLAN |
US12968321 |
2010-12-15 |
US20110313598A1 |
2011-12-22 |
François Coulmeau; Christophe Caillaud; Thierry Person |
A method of managing a flight procedure of an aircraft flight plan, which has at least one segment, includes a step in which an additional attribute of the segment representative of a compulsory or optional nature of the flight of said segment is dynamically selected. |
284 |
Method and device for creating an aircraft flight plan |
US12253634 |
2008-10-17 |
US09037410B2 |
2015-05-19 |
Daniel Ferro; Veronique Roan; Philippe Haas; Fulgence Rollet |
A method of creating at least one flight plan of an aircraft includes entering a creation objective which illustrates a type and general characteristics of the flight plan to be created, automatically generating a flight plan outline, automatically generating a targeted request for information relating to missing parameters, entering the requested information relating to the missing parameters, and supplementing automatically the flight plan outline and automatically deleting any discontinuities to create, in a definitive manner, the flight plan. |
285 |
Four dimensional trajectory based operation flight plans |
US12781525 |
2010-05-17 |
US08862287B1 |
2014-10-14 |
Jason William Clark; Alexander Korolev; Diana Marie Baca |
The different advantageous embodiments provide a system comprising a computer, first program code stored on the computer, and second program code stored on the computer. The computer is configured to run the first program code to retrieve flight status information during a flight and generate four dimensional flight information. The four dimensional flight information includes a comparison of the flight status information to a flight plan for the flight. The computer is configured to run the second program code to depict the four dimensional flight information in a textual format. |
286 |
Method of assisting in the navigation of an aircraft with an updating of the flight plan |
US11686339 |
2007-03-14 |
US08014907B2 |
2011-09-06 |
François Coulmeau |
The invention relates to a method of assisting in the navigation of an aircraft comprising a step for updating a flight plan according to a new clearance originating from an air traffic control authority and received on board by a ground/onboard communication system. The clearance comprises an action conditional on the flight plan linked to a floating point of the path defined by a time constraint of the aircraft; on receipt of the new clearance, the update is performed directly by means of the FMS linked to the communication system. This is a predictive method. |
287 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING FLIGHT PLAN DATA |
US12256990 |
2008-10-23 |
US20100106346A1 |
2010-04-29 |
Harsh Badli; Rupak Ghosh |
Method and systems for managing flight plan data associated with an aircraft are provided. A list of navigational entry selections (e.g., flight plan origins and flight plan destinations) is generated. Each of the navigational entry selections is associated with the aircraft (e.g., previously used). The list of navigational entry selections is displayed to a user of the aircraft. An indication of a selection of at least one of the navigational entry selections is received from the user. The navigational entry selections are generated, for example, based on navigational entries previously stored in a memory on-board the aircraft, a location of the aircraft, or a combination of the previous navigational entries and the location of the aircraft. |
288 |
DISPLAYING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AN AIRCRAFT FOLLOWING A FLIGHT PLAN |
US11993007 |
2006-06-19 |
US20100023258A1 |
2010-01-28 |
Patrice Rouquette; Nolween Laveant; Didier Have; Arnaud Le Tellier |
A device comprises means for computing the air-craft (A) current position means for determining at least one maximum permitted deviation (E1) around a set position of the flight path of the flight plan according to accuracy and integrity performances of said current position computation and to the restriction of a flight range authorised in a flight corridor (6A, 6B), and a display system (7) for displaying at least one a distance scale (9) on a viewing screen (8), at least one a fixed symbol (10) displaying the current position and two movable pointers (13, 14) displaying the limits of said maximum permitted deviation (E1). |
289 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING ELECTRONIC FLIGHT PLANS |
US12042179 |
2008-03-04 |
US20090228202A1 |
2009-09-10 |
Patrick Wipplinger; Thomas Grasse |
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a flight plan for an aircraft. A set of projected flight plan parameters are displayed associated with a waypoint presented on a display of an aircraft data processing system. User input is received to form a set of actual flight plan parameters. A set of variances between the set of projected flight plan parameters and the set of actual flight plan parameters is displayed on a map in association with the waypoint. |
290 |
FLIGHT PLAN COMPARISON SYSTEM AND METHOD |
US11939209 |
2007-11-13 |
US20090125222A1 |
2009-05-14 |
Susan L. McCullough; Stephen S. So |
A flight plan comparison method is provided to be carried out by a display system deployed on an aircraft. The flight plan comparison method includes the steps of storing a group of flight plans and generating a first flight plan comparison page wherein the values of a first type of variable are graphically expressed for a plurality of flight plans in the group of stored flight plans. |
291 |
METHOD OF GENERATING AN AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PLAN |
US12124298 |
2008-05-21 |
US20080300739A1 |
2008-12-04 |
Francois COULMEAU; Olivier Friedmann; Jean-Christophe Jaillant |
The field of the invention is that of the generation of an aircraft flight plan. The invention more specifically relates to a method of generating a flight plan enabling an aircraft to link a departure airport AD to a destination airport AA. The flight plan consists of a number N−1 of segments SGi, i being an integer number between 2 and N. The index i uniquely identifies the segment SGi of the flight plan linking an auxiliary departure position PADi to an auxiliary arrival position PAAi according to a route Ri. The route Ri is a straight line defined by a list of auxiliary route positions PARi,k, in which k identifies the auxiliary route positions. The routes Ri are stored in a database BDR onboard the aircraft. PAD1 is a geographic position (of the departure airport for example) AD, PAAN is a geographic position (of the arrival airport for example) AA, PAAi and PADi+1 are combined for any integer i between 2 and N−1. According to the invention, the method comprises a coupled determination of an auxiliary arrival position PAAi that is part of the auxiliary positions of at least one of the routes stored in BDR and of a route Ri+1 to be followed by the segment SGi+1. The coupled determination is produced from an auxiliary departure position PADi and a route Ri to be followed by the segment SGi. |
292 |
Method and device for revising a flight plan of an aircraft |
US11118318 |
2005-05-02 |
US07089091B2 |
2006-08-08 |
Franck Artini; Edward Strongman |
A flight plan revision device may include a first component that determines an auxiliary flight plan corresponding to a lateral revision of the current flight plan, at least over a low altitude flight section. A second component automatically determines at least one decision point indicating the last position of the aircraft along the current flight plan where the auxiliary flight plan can still be activated, so as to allow the aircraft to overfly the terrain in complete safety by following the auxiliary flight plan under the same flight conditions as those envisaged for the current flight plan. A third component automatically presents at least the decision point to a pilot of the aircraft. And a fourth actuatable component allows a pilot to activate the auxiliary flight plan, so as to carry out the lateral revision of the current flight plan. |
293 |
Method of validating a flight plan constraint |
US10537345 |
2003-12-02 |
US20060025898A1 |
2006-02-02 |
Loic Charles |
The present invention relates to compliance, by the FMS flight management computer equipping an aerodyne, with a constraint, in particular an altitude constraint, of the flight plan (Dpv) at an imposed waypoint close to the position of the aerodyne at the moment of instigation of its automatic flight plan following function. It consists in validating in advance such a constraint by projecting itself into a near future by means of a forecast (Pt) of the displacement of the aerodyne taking account of the motion of the aerodyne during the transition between the instances of application of the flight presets prevailing before the instigation of the automatic following function and those newly provided by the FMS flight computer (30) during this instigation. |
294 |
Method and device for revising a flight plan of an aircraft |
US11118318 |
2005-05-02 |
US20050261808A1 |
2005-11-24 |
Franck Artini; Edward Strongman |
The device (1) comprises means (6) for determining an auxiliary flight plan corresponding to a lateral revision of the current flight plan, at least over a low altitude flight section, means (3) for automatically determining at least one decision point which indicates the last position of the aircraft along the current flight plan, where the auxiliary flight plan can still be activated, so as to allow the aircraft to overfly the terrain in complete safety by following the auxiliary flight plan, under the same flight conditions as those envisaged for the current flight plan, means (9) for automatically presenting at least the decision point to a pilot of the aircraft, and means actuatable (13), allowing a pilot to activate the auxiliary flight plan, so as to carry out the lateral revision of the current flight plan. |
295 |
Methods and apparatus for assembling a flight plan |
US10056756 |
2002-01-23 |
US06625537B2 |
2003-09-23 |
David B. Dwyer |
Method and apparatus are provided for assembling a flight plan. The apparatus has a memory configured to store data associated with waypoints that can be used in the flight plan and a processor that is configured to access the memory and retrieve the data associated with a first waypoint and data associated with a second waypoint. The first waypoint corresponding to a first leg of the flight plan and the second waypoint corresponding to a second leg of the flight plan. In addition, the apparatus has a display that is configured to produce a visual representation of the flight plan with a single waypoint designation at a single location for the first waypoint and the second waypoint using the data retrieved by the processor. The display is also configured to produce a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the single waypoint designation at the single location with a first leg identifier for the first leg and a second leg identifier other than first leg identifier for the second leg. |
296 |
Automatic view adjusting flight plan display |
US723405 |
1996-09-30 |
US5995901A |
1999-11-30 |
Gary L. Owen; James M. Suiter; Jeff M. Henry |
An FMS with the capability of automatically adjusting the view of the flight path as the flight progresses while maintaining a set viewing direction. The vertical dimension of the flight path display chosen to fill the display and provide increased readability. |
297 |
ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLIGHT PLAN MODIFICATION |
US14677422 |
2015-04-02 |
US20160293017A1 |
2016-10-06 |
John Whelan |
An associative memory system, method and computer-readable storage medium are provided to modify a flight plan. In regards to an associative memory system, a receiver module is provided that is configured to receive a flight plan of an aircraft. The flight plan includes a plurality of attribute categories and their associated attribute values. The associative memory system also includes an associative memory configured to compare attribute values of the flight plan with corresponding attribute values of prior flight plans to identify one or more related flight plans. The one or more related flight plans include intangible data related to a respective flight. The associative memory system also includes a modification module configured to modify the flight plan of the aircraft based upon information from one or more of the related flight plans, including the intangible data from one or more of the related flight plans. |
298 |
Method and device for calculating predictions on a flight plan of an aircraft |
US14222195 |
2014-03-21 |
US09361804B2 |
2016-06-07 |
Jean-Claude Mere; Matthieu Aribert; Mathieu Versini |
The device comprises a flight management system which comprises means for generating requests, for requesting the results of performance functions and a performance function server which is external with respect to the flight management system and comprises means for calculating predictions which are capable of processing the requests and transmitting the results to the flight management system. |
299 |
In-aircraft flight planning with datalink integration |
US14156164 |
2014-01-15 |
US09280903B2 |
2016-03-08 |
Victoria Judy; David Pepitone |
In one embodiment an in-aircraft system that implements a flight planning module is provided. The flight planning module is configured to display on the display unit a pending flight plan and implement a first button associated with a display of the pending flight plan. The first button, if selected, directs the one or more processing units to convert the pending flight plan to a format for sending in a datalink message, and to cause the pending flight plan to be sent to a ground station in a downlink datalink message without human input to a message applications module, the message applications module including instructions to display information corresponding to datalink messages on a display unit and to maintain a message log of datalink messages. |
300 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACING FLIGHT PLAN STATUS |
US14542743 |
2014-11-17 |
US20150142222A1 |
2015-05-21 |
Byeong-Cheol CHOI; Seoung-Hyeon LEE; Deok-Gyu LEE; Yong-Kyun KIM; Jong-Wook HAN; Hyo-Dal PARK |
An apparatus and a method for tracing a flight plan status are disclosed. The apparatus for tracing a flight plan status includes: a flight plan structure generation unit configured to generate a flight plan status transition structure based on received flight plan information; a flight plan setting unit configured to set a flight plan status based on a flight message transferred through an aeronautical fixed telecommunication network; and a flight plan tracing unit configured to trace the flight plan status included in the flight plan status transition structure based on the set flight plan status. |