Patent ID: 7272491

Claim:
A method of generating a flight plan for a tactical flight of an aircraft, said method comprising: a) defining input data comprising at least data of initial weight and initial loading of the aircraft, meteorological data, points of transit of the flight plan and at least one optimization criterion; and b) determining, with the aid of said input data, by implementing a prediction function and an optimization function, (i) a flight profile of said flight plan comprising, for each point of transit of the flight plan, a plurality of predictive information and (ii) between two successive points of transit of the flight plan, optimized parameters, wherein: α) tactical events of said tactical flight, to be taken into account, are selected; β) for each tactical event thus selected, at least one parameter which is modified by said tactical event at a particular point of variation of the flight plan, as well as the variation of said parameter, corresponding to said modification, are determined; and δ) each parameter variation thus determined, taken into account at the corresponding point of variation, is used in step b) to determine said flight profile.