Integrated flight deck
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsKirupakar J, Kalimulla KHAN, Ramkumar RAJENDRAN
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Abstract
A system for an aircraft configured to: provide one or more of the sensed aircraft characteristics to a flight planning tool for processing by one or more features of the flight planning tool; receive a recommended flight setting from the flight planning tool based on the processing by the flight planning tool; compare a current flight setting as determined based on the one or more sensed aircraft characteristics from the plurality of sensors with the received recommended flight setting; determine a potential operational efficiency based on the comparison between the received recommended flight setting and the current flight setting; and provide the potential operational efficiency to a user based on an identity of the user.
Claims20
A system for an aircraft comprising:
- a plurality of sensors configured to sense one or more aircraft characteristics of an aircraft system and generate a signal based on the sensed aircraft characteristic,
- a processing device communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors, and
- a memory communicatively coupled to the processing device and storing processor-readable instructions that when executed by the processing device cause the system to:
- provide one or more of the sensed aircraft characteristics to a flight planning tool for processing by one or more features of the flight planning tool;
- receive a recommended flight setting from the flight planning tool based on the processing by the flight planning tool;
- compare a current flight setting as determined based on the one or more sensed aircraft characteristics from the plurality of sensors with the received recommended flight setting;
- determine a potential operational efficiency based on the comparison between the received recommended flight setting and the current flight setting;
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- display or transmit the potential operational efficiency to a user based on an identity of the user.
A method comprising:
- providing one or more sensed aircraft characteristics to a flight planning tool for processing by one or more features of the flight planning tool;
- receiving a recommended flight setting from the flight planning tool based on the processing by the flight planning tool;
- comparing a current flight setting as determined by one or more of a plurality of sensors with the received recommended flight setting;
- determining a potential operational efficiency based on the comparison between the received recommended flight setting and the current flight setting;
- and
- providing the potential operational efficiency to a user based on an identity of the user.
A method of operating an aircraft comprising:
- providing one or more of sensed aircraft characteristics to a flight planning tool for processing by one or more features of the flight planning tool;
- receiving a recommended flight setting from the flight planning tool based on the processing by the flight planning tool;
- comparing a current flight setting as determined by one or more of a plurality of sensors with the received recommended flight setting and automatically logging the current flight setting in a flight log;
- determining a potential operational efficiency based on the comparison between the received recommended flight setting and the current flight setting;
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- providing the potential operational efficiency to a user based on an identity of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.