Automatic flat rate setting system for freight feeder aircraft and method of setting of engine flat rate
AssigneeAmerican Utilicraft Corporation
InventorJohn J. Dupont
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Abstract
A system and method of automatically setting a flat rate engine power setting of an aircraft determines the weight of loaded cargo containers to determine the total gross weight of the aircraft prior to take-off, determines, from the total gross weight, the required flat rate engine power for the aircraft, such as by inputting the stored value into a look-up table, and automatically sets the flat rate setting of the aircraft's engines to correspond to the determined required engine power, prior to take-off, by sending the obtained required flat rate engine power as a command signal to an engine control system.
Claims13
A method of setting a flat rate engine power setting of an aircraft, comprising the steps of:
- determining the total gross weight of the aircraft prior to take-off;
- determining, from the total gross weight, the required flat rate engine power for the aircraft;
- and
- automatically setting the flat rate setting of the aircraft's engines to correspond to the determined required engine power, prior to take-off.
A method of automatically setting a flat rate engine power setting of an aircraft, comprising the steps of:
- determining when a cargo container has been loaded onto the aircraft;
- determining the weight of the loaded cargo container and adding the determined weight to a weight storage register;
- determining the total gross weight of the aircraft prior to take-off by reading out a stored value from said weight storage register;
- determining, from the total gross weight, the required flat rate engine power for the aircraft by inputting said stored value into a look-up table;
- and
- automatically setting the flat rate setting of the aircraft's engines to correspond to the determined required engine power, prior to take-off, by sending the obtained required flat rate engine power as a command signal to an engine control system.
A system for automatically setting a flat rate engine power setting of an aircraft, comprising:
- an on-board computer system, including
- means for determining when a cargo container has been loaded onto the aircraft;
- means for determining the weight of the loaded cargo container and adding the determined weight to a weight storage register;
- means for determining the total gross weight of the aircraft prior to take-off by reading out a stored value from said weight storage register;
- a look-up table for storing required flat rate engine power as a function of total gross weight of said aircraft;
- means for determining, from the total gross weight, the required flat rate engine power for the aircraft by inputting said stored value into said look-up table;
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- means for automatically setting the flat rate setting of the aircraft's engines to correspond to the determined required engine power, prior to take-off, by sending the obtained required flat rate engine power as a command signal to an engine control system.
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