Patent ID: 9613543
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: A61B,B64D,G08B,G09B

Claim:
1. A method of operating an aircraft during a flight, the method comprising: detecting, with an onboard monitoring subsystem of the aircraft, that a flight crew member is fatigued; activating, by audiovisual equipment onboard the aircraft, an automated flight crew training exercise in response to detecting that the flight crew member is fatigued; presenting, via the audiovisual equipment, the flight crew member with the automated flight crew training exercise for completion, wherein the automated flight crew training exercise comprises one or more tasks including content to improve pilot airmanship and to increase attentiveness of the flight crew member, and wherein the one or more tasks are associated with flight school skills and general aviation skills; receiving input from the flight crew member to complete the one or more tasks; and compiling a training record for the flight crew member, based on the input, wherein the training record includes at least a time to complete the one or more tasks by the flight crew member and accuracy of completion of the one or more tasks by the flight crew member; wherein the one or more tasks comprises calculations to be performed by the flight crew member, wherein the calculations are performed using input parameters from the flight; and wherein the calculations comprise one or more of wind speed calculations, wind direction calculations, magnetic variation calculations, runway crosswinds calculations, and true airspeed calculations.