Method and apparatus for automatically determining stopover airports for flight planning

Abstract

A method and apparatus that automatically selects one or more stopover airports (or “technical stops”) for flight planning is disclosed. The method may include receiving flight origin, destination, aircraft identification information, aircrew identification information, passenger identification information, and user preference information from a user, receiving weather, safety-of flight and meteorological information based on at least the received origin and destination information, retrieving aircraft information, origin and destination airport information, potential stopover airport information, aircrew information, and passenger information from one or more databases based on at least one of the received flight origin, destination, aircraft identification information, aircrew information, passenger information, and user preference information, automatically selecting one or more stopover airports based on the received weather, safety-of flight and meteorological information and the retrieved flight origin, destination, aircraft information, aircrew information, passenger information, and user preference information, and outputting the selected one or more stopover airports to the user.

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