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AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsMichael E. Dey, Bradley D. Cornell, Peter D. Gunn, Robert J. Myers
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A system may generate a modified flight plan for an aircraft based on an original flight plan. The system may provide an automatic strategic offset function that includes an autoflight system; a sensor system including at least one of a global positioning system, an inertial reference unit, or an air data computer; and a flight management computer. The flight management computer may be operably coupled with the autoflight system and/or the sensor system. The flight management computer may process a flight plan of the vehicle and generate a non-uniform offset value in the vertical and/or lateral orientation between the flight plan and a boundary. The offset value may be used to create an offset flight plan for navigating an aircraft.
A system, comprising:
A navigation system comprising:
An aircraft system comprising a flight controller to generate offset values and offset flight segments for navigating an aircraft between an origination point and a destination point, the offset flight segments being variably offset from flight plan segments defined between waypoints of a flight plan, the offset flight segments being within a boundary defined around the flight plan and the variable offset based on the offset values.
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