Patent ID: 9697737
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G08G

Claim:
1. A method of providing flight plan information to a user, the method comprising: receiving, by a first computing device configured with an efficiency and operational flight object system operable to update a flight plan in real time, a flight object via a communication network communicatively coupled to the first computing device, the flight object comprising a software container containing flight plan information, the efficiency and operational flight object system operable to update the flight plan for efficiency and optimization in reference to the flight plan and an aircraft associated with the flight plan; processing the flight object to identify flight plan information pertaining to a planned flight associated with an aircraft; receiving, by the first computing device, real time flight information pertaining to the aircraft as the aircraft conducts the planned flight; based on the real time flight information, updating the flight plan information contained in the flight object; receiving a selection of one of a plurality of communications channels that employ different communications technologies and are selectable based on selection criteria; and sending the updated flight plan information to a target system using the selected communications channel, wherein only the selected communications channel is used for sending the updated flight plan information.