Contingency Response Operations for Flight Paths

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• determining a flight path of an aerial vehicle;
• determining a section energy allocation for a section of the flight path, wherein the section energy allocation comprises (i) a section baseline energy value representing a first amount of energy expected to be consumed by the aerial vehicle in connection with traversing the section of the flight path and (ii) a section energy margin value representing a second amount of energy by which the aerial vehicle is permitted to exceed the first amount of energy in traversing the section of the flight path;
• determining a section energy expenditure of the aerial vehicle observed in connection with traversing the section of the flight path by the aerial vehicle;
• determining that the section energy expenditure exceeds the section energy allocation;
• and
• based on determining that the section energy expenditure exceeds the section energy allocation, causing the aerial vehicle to perform a contingency response operation.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• determining a flight path of an aerial vehicle;
• determining a section energy allocation for a section of the flight path, wherein the section energy allocation comprises (i) a section baseline energy value representing a first amount of energy expected to be consumed by the aerial vehicle in connection with traversing the section of the flight path and (ii) a section energy margin value representing a second amount of energy by which the aerial vehicle is permitted to exceed the first amount of energy in traversing the section of the flight path;
• determining a section energy expenditure of the aerial vehicle observed in connection with traversing the section of the flight path by the aerial vehicle;
• determining that the section energy expenditure exceeds the section energy allocation;
• and
• based on determining that the section energy expenditure exceeds the section energy allocation, causing the aerial vehicle to perform a contingency response operation.