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US 12,576,976 B2Granted
Engine characteristics matching
AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsLeonid Guerchkovitch, Aaron J. Kaufman, Boris Karpman, Manuj Dhingra
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Abstract
A method of controlling a multi-engine aircraft includes receiving input for commanded thrust and modifying the commanded thrust using a model of an incumbent powerplant to generate a modified commanded thrust for matching aircraft performance with a new powerplant to the aircraft performance with the incumbent powerplant. The method includes applying the modified commanded thrust to the new powerplant.
Claims6
A method of controlling a multi-engine aircraft comprising:
- receiving input for commanded thrust;
- modifying the commanded thrust using a model of an incumbent powerplant to generate a modified commanded thrust for matching aircraft performance with a new powerplant to the aircraft performance with the incumbent powerplant;
- and
- applying the modified commanded thrust to the new powerplant,
- wherein the incumbent powerplant is a previous model powerplant that is no longer onboard the aircraft, or never was onboard the aircraft, wherein the aircraft includes two or more of the new powerplants, and wherein applying the modified commanded thrust includes applying the modified commanded thrust to all new powerplants onboard the aircraft.
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