Battery-based flight planning for electric aircraft

One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• accessing a performance reserve requirement associated with aerial operations within an airspace;
• accessing data indicative of one or more battery conditions for one or more batteries onboard an electric aircraft;
• accessing data indicative of a future flight, wherein the data indicative of the future flight comprises an estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in a cruise mode and an estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in a hover mode;
• based on the performance reserve requirements and the one or more battery conditions, computing a reserve state of charge for the electric aircraft to complete the future flight within the airspace given the estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in the cruise mode and the estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in the hover mode,
• wherein the reserve state of charge is computed to determine an amount of battery charge for the electric aircraft to be able to operate in the hover mode for a threshold amount of hover time and be able to vertically land throughout a route associated with the future flight;
• determining an action associated with the electric aircraft based on the reserve state of charge, wherein the action comprises at least one of:
• (i) a confirmation of the electric aircraft's ability to perform of the future flight, (ii) a downtime adjustment to a preflight activity;
• or (iii) a flight adjustment to the future flight;
• and
• providing, instructions indicative of the action associated with the electric aircraft, to at least one of:
• an aircraft computing device, a pilot computing device, an aerial facility computing device, or a facility operator computing device.

A computing system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media that store instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to cause the computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• accessing a performance reserve requirement associated with aerial operations within an airspace;
• accessing one or more battery conditions for one or more batteries onboard an electric aircraft;
• accessing data indicative of a future flight, wherein the data indicative of the future flight comprises an estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in a cruise mode and an estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in a hover mode;
• based on the performance reserve requirements and the one or more battery conditions, computing a reserve state of charge for the electric aircraft to complete the future flight within the airspace given the estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in the cruise mode and the estimated amount of time or distance that the electric aircraft will operate in the hover mode,
• wherein the reserve state of charge is computed to determine an amount of battery charge for the electric aircraft to be able to operate in the hover mode for a threshold amount of hover time and be able to vertically land throughout a route associated with the future flight;
• computing a reserve state of charge for the aircraft based on the performance reserve requirements and the one or more battery conditions, wherein the reserve state of charge indicates a reserve battery charge level for completing a future flight within the airspace;
• based on the reserve state of charge, computing one or more battery charging parameters for the electric aircraft to complete the future flight;
• determining an action associated with the electric aircraft based on the one or more battery charging parameters;
• and
• providing, instructions indicative of the action associated with the electric aircraft, to at least one of:
• an aircraft computing device, a pilot computing device, an aerial facility computing device, or a facility operator computing device.