Assisted turbulence efb interaction
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorSamantha A. SCHWARTZ
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a turbulence management system for providing suggestions to a pilot that mitigate the effects of turbulence. These suggestions can be output to the pilot using an EFB. As mentioned above, an EFB can be communicatively coupled to a FMS such that the EFB has access to the data in the FMS. From the pilot's interactions with the FMS, the EFB can identify the pilot's intent such as landing, taking off, plotting a course change, changing altitude, maintaining a cruising altitude, etc. Once the intent is known, the EFB can output a suggestion to the pilot that satisfies the intent, but mitigates the harmful effects of turbulence. In one aspect, this suggestion is generated using the flight plant and aircraft metrics available from the FMS.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- inferring pilot intent based on pilot input into a flight management system (FMS) of an aircraft;
- receiving, at a portable device, an indication of turbulence corresponding to the aircraft;
- receiving, at the portable device, aircraft metrics from the FMS;
- determining, at the portable device, a suggestion based on the aircraft metrics to mitigate the effects of the turbulence while still satisfying the pilot intent;
- and
- outputting the suggestion to a pilot using the portable device.
A portable device, comprising:
- a display;
- and
- a turbulence manager, configured to:
- infer pilot intent based on pilot input into a flight management system (FMS) in an aircraft,
- receive an indication of turbulence corresponding to the aircraft,
- receive aircraft metrics from the FMS,
- determine a suggestion to mitigate the effects of the turbulence while still satisfying the pilot intent based on the aircraft metrics, and
- output the suggestion to a pilot using the display.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable program code, the computer readable program code, when executed by a processor, performs an operation, the operation comprising:
- inferring pilot intent based on pilot input into a flight management system (FMS) of an aircraft;
- receiving, at a portable device, an indication of turbulence corresponding to the aircraft;
- receiving, at the portable device, aircraft metrics from the FMS;
- determining, at the portable device, a suggestion to mitigate the effects of the turbulence while still satisfying the pilot intent based on the aircraft metrics;
- and
- outputting the suggestion to a pilot using the portable device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.