Patent ID: 7966122
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for providing, to a user, flight plan data for an air trip of interest from a first location to a second location, the method comprising: collecting over a period of days air traffic data including at least one of an as-filed, an as-cleared and an as-flown flight plan from an air traffic data feed; extracting a plurality of the flight plans from the collected air traffic data, the extracted flight plans each including a flight plan route; storing the extracted flight plans in a database; storing at least one of time data and weather data pertinent to the extracted flight plans in the database; receiving at a database manager a request from a user for flight plan data associated with the air trip of interest; accessing and abstracting, from the flight plan database, flight plan data pertinent to the trip of interest, wherein the flight plan data pertinent to the trip of interest relates to a plurality of accessed routes; ranking each of the accessed routes according to an estimated probability that such route would be selected as part of a cleared flight plan for the air trip of interest; and providing information, based on such ranking, from the abstracted flight plan data including a flight plan route to the user.