Air Traffic Control Delay Factor
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsLouis J. Bailey, Marissa K. Singleton
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Abstract
A time factor corresponding to an airspace delay or acceleration is communicated to an aircraft. A flight management computer or other computational device of the aircraft calculates a proposed change in trajectory in order to accommodate the time factor in an optimum or nearly optimum manner. One or more proposed changes in trajectory are subject to review by the pilot or other flight personnel. An operator-selected change in trajectory is then implemented in order to accommodate a new arrival time of the aircraft at its destination or a positional point.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- communicating a time factor to a computational device of an aircraft;
- calculating one or more proposed changes in trajectory in accordance with the time factor using the computational device;
- altering the flight of the aircraft in accordance with a selected one of the one or more proposed changes in trajectory.
A method of controlling an aircraft, comprising:
- inputting a time factor to a computational device of the aircraft, the time factor originating at a ground-based control entity;
- calculating one or more proposed changes in trajectory in accordance with the time factor using the computational device;
- displaying the one or more proposed changes in trajectory to an operator of the aircraft;
- and
- altering flight of the aircraft in accordance with an operator selected one of the one or more proposed changes in trajectory.
One or more computer-readable storage media including a program code, the program code configured to cause a computer to:
- receive a time factor;
- calculate a proposed change in trajectory in accordance with the time factor;
- and
- display the proposed change in trajectory to an operator of an aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.