Patent ID: 9208457
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G01C,G06Q,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for flight planning, the method comprising: identifying routes from a start point to an end point for a flight of an aircraft from a database of routes in which a plurality of different types of routes is present in the database of routes, wherein the plurality of different types of routes comprises previously cleared routes, previously flown routes, preferred routes, and airways wherein the previously flown routes are routes specifically flown by the aircraft or another aircraft of the same type; identifying a model of the aircraft and a number of characteristics of the aircraft, the number of characteristics comprising actual characteristics of the specific aircraft including fuel usage and speed; running on a processor simulations that identify a period of time following a departure for the routes using the number of characteristics of the aircraft, a number of weather conditions expected along each of the routes, and a number of conditions of the flight including payload and fuel load the number of weather conditions comprises predicted weather conditions; identifying on the processor a performance of the aircraft for the routes from the simulations of the routes using the number of weather conditions for the flight and the number of characteristics of the aircraft; ranking the routes based on the performance of the aircraft on the routes in meeting a number of goals for the flight to form ranked routes; and displaying a portion of the ranked routes.