Patent ID: 6085145
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
An aircraft control system, for use at an airport where a plurality of aircraft arrive in an arrival order, to determine a position in the arrival order of a particular aircraft based upon a time at which the particular aircraft reaches a given point located away from the airport, the aircraft control system comprising:an acquiring circuit which acquires data on the position and speed of the particular aircraft;a setting circuit which sets an arbitrary point located farther than the given point from the airport;a forming circuit which forms a line passing through the given point and the arbitrary point;a presuming circuit which presumes a route along which the particular aircraft will fly, based upon the line and the position of the particular aircraft; anda predicting circuit which predicts a time at which the particular aircraft will reach the given point, based upon the presumed route and the speed of the particular aircraft.