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US 2022/0013018 A1Published application
Method and system for the updating of a flight plan
AssigneeGE Aviation Systems LLC
InventorStefan Alexander Schwindt
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Abstract
A method for updating a flight plan comprising, via an avionics device, at least a portion of a flight plan from an external source, authenticating or validating the update, generating a set of updated flight parameters, comparing the set of updated flight parameters with a current set of flight parameters, receiving a set of environmental conditions, performing a series of plausibility checks and automatically updating at least a portion of the flight plan or generating an indication.
Claims20
A method for updating a flight plan, comprising:
- receiving, via an avionics device, an update to at least a portion of a flight plan from an external source;
- at least one of authenticating or validating, via the avionics device, the update to define a valid update;
- generating with the valid update, via the avionics device, a set of updated flight parameters comprising, at least one of a fuel usage or a flight time;
- comparing, via the avionics device, the set of updated flight parameters with a set of current flight parameters to determine a difference in at least one of fuel usage or flight time;
- receiving, via the avionics device, a set of environmental conditions comprising, at least one of a weather pattern or an air-traffic pattern to define a set of received environmental conditions;
- performing, via the avionics device, a series of plausibility checks based of the comparing;
- and
- in response to the series of plausibility checks, automatically updating the at least the portion of the flight plan if plausible or generating an implausible indication if there is an implausible condition.
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A system adapted to verify an updated flight plan, to perform the steps of:
- receiving the updated flight plan;
- generating a set of updated flight parameters comprising, at least one of a fuel usage or a flight time;
- comparing the set of updated flight parameters with a set of current flight parameters to determine a difference in at least one of fuel usage or flight time;
- generating a set of environmental conditions comprising, at least one of a weather pattern or an air-traffic pattern to define a set of received environmental conditions;
- performing a series of plausibility checks based of the comparing;
- and
- in response to the series of plausibility checks, automatically updating at least a portion of the flight plan if plausible or generating an indication if there is an implausible condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.