- Patent Title: Performance-based track variation for aircraft flight management
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Application No.: US15980434Application Date: 2018-05-15
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Publication No.: US10565885B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Charles Otis Adler , Sheila Ruth Conway , Douglas A. Stoll
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: G08G5/00
- IPC: G08G5/00 ; G08G5/02 ; G01C21/20

Abstract:
An example method for modifying a flight path of an aircraft includes receiving real time positioning estimates for an aircraft, receiving an actual navigation performance (ANP) of the aircraft informative of uncertainty in the position estimate, receiving a required navigation performance (RNP) instrument flight procedure for the aircraft, receiving spacing input from an air traffic controller that indicates spacing requirements between the aircraft and one or more other aircraft, receiving information relating to communities underneath the flight path, calculating, by a system onboard the aircraft, a modification to the flight path to be flown by the aircraft that causes the aircraft to remain within the containment boundaries of the RNP instrument flight procedure while reducing noise impact to the communities underneath the flight path and meeting the spacing requirements of the air traffic controller, and displaying a visual representation of a modified flight path for the aircraft.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180261107A1 Performance-Based Track Variation for Aircraft Flight Management Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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