Patent ID: 6526337
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
A supervisory control system for aircraft flight management comprising in combination:an aircraft having a flight control system and an instrument panel; a comparator circuit aboard said aircraft, said comparator circuit responsive to said flight control system for generating an error signal in response to a pilot command error; a ground station; a data link between said aircraft and said ground station for exchanging data between said aircraft and said ground station; said ground station having a simulated cockpit and flight control system corresponding to the flight control system aboard said aircraft; said ground station having an instrument panel corresponding to the instrument panel aboard said aircraft; said error signal enabling said data link for transmitting the information displayed on the instrument panel aboard said aircraft to the ground station instrument panel; and said error signal further decoupling the flight control system aboard said aircraft and coupling the flight control system in the simulated cockpit in said ground station to control the flight of said aircraft through said data link.