Patent ID: 9031717
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: B64C,G05D,G08G

Abstract:
1. A flight management system on board an aircraft including a computer system executing instructions stored on non-transitory memory, the execution of the instructions causes the flight management system to: manage a flight path by tracking the actual flight path of the aircraft; determine the current position of the aircraft during flight, wherein the calculation includes communicating with a navigation system on the aircraft; manage at least one navigation database wherein the database includes ground maps of airports identifying locations of airport gates and runways; generate a route plan including ground and air paths for the aircraft to travel from a departure gate to an arrival gate; calculate deviations between the current position of the aircraft in flight and the air path of the route plan; determine the position of the aircraft while on the ground, including determining the position of the aircraft at an airport using the airport maps; determine a route for the aircraft while at a departure airport to taxi from the departure gate to a selected runway using one of the ground paths of the route plan; determine a route for the aircraft while at an arrival airport to taxi from a landing runway to the arrival gate using one of the ground paths, and generate presentations indicating the determined routes which are displayed on a display device in a flight deck of the aircraft.