Aircraft flight correction process

US6163744A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Euro Telematic GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Reiner Onken · Braunschweig, DE
• Thomas Prevot · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 21, 1999
• Grant date: Dec 19, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 21, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G5/34
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Modern flight control systems should be largely automated because of their complexity. A process is disclosed to automatically correct an originally planned aircraft flight after flight-relevant parameters are changed. The process has the following steps: (a) the values of the flight-influencing parameters which determine the planned flight are supplied to a computer and stored therein; (b) when a change occurs, the changed values are also supplied to the computer and compared therein to the stored values; (c) depending on the results of the comparison and on predetermined checking and selection criteria, it is first checked whether the change requires a flight correction, and if that is the case new parameter values for a corrected flight are determined and stored in the computer instead of the previously stored parameter values; (d) the flight correction determined by the new parameter values is initiated; (e) these process steps are repeated whenever necessary every time the parameter values are changed. This process is mainly useful to improve flight planning operations before and during instrument flying in aircraft provided with modern flight equipment.