Patent ID: 8514104

Claim:
An integrated system for providing minimum equipment decision support for an aircraft, comprising: a) an onboard maintenance system or remote data concentrator processing subsystem, configured to procure onboard aircraft data and provide a cockpit message; b) a computer system configured to procure minimum equipment list (MEL) constraints; c) an avionic system data delivery service (DDS) configured to procure offboard flight plan related information; and, d) a real time operating system (RTOS) configured to synthesize said onboard aircraft flight data, minimum equipment list constraints, and offboard flight plan related information to enable holistic flight dispatch determinations within the current fault condition of the aircraft, said RTOS being configured to i) provide a software implementable link to corrective action if pilot corrective action is indicated and, ii) perform corrective action when determined by said software implementable link that corrective action is indicated.