Patent ID: 11887487
Assignee: nan
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for updating a flight plan of an aircraft having a flight management system and an electronic flight bag provided onboard the aircraft, the method comprising:
receiving, at the electronic flight bag, an update to at least a portion of a flight plan from a source external to the aircraft,
receiving, at the flight management system, the update from the electronic flight bag;
at least one of authenticating or validating, via the flight management system, the update to define a valid update;
generating with the valid update, via the flight management system, a set of updated flight parameters comprising, at least one of a fuel usage or a flight time;
comparing, via the flight management system, the set of updated flight parameters with a set of current flight parameters to determine a difference in at least one of fuel usage or flight time;
receiving, via the flight management system, a set of environmental conditions comprising, at least one of a weather pattern or an air-traffic pattern to define a set of received environmental conditions;
performing, via the flight management system, a series of plausibility checks based of the comparing;
in response to the series of plausibility checks, automatically updating the at least the portion of the flight plan if plausible or generating an implausible indication if there is an implausible condition; and
operating the aircraft according to the updated flight plan.