Patent ID: 8600675

Claim:
A system for generating trajectory data for an aircraft in flight, such system comprising: a source of current trajectory data; a source of aircraft parameter data; an air navigation services provider; and a trajectory data generator employed by a dispatch center and configured to receive current trajectory data of a first aircraft, receive aircraft parameter data sent out by a system installed in the first aircraft, where the aircraft parameter data is representative of a plurality of actual parameters of the first aircraft and corresponds or relates to aircraft performance, receive navigation services data sent out by an air navigation services provider, determine a proposed, optimized flight trajectory for the first aircraft, where such determination applies a trajectory optimizing function employed by a dispatch center and is based upon the current trajectory data of the first aircraft, the aircraft parameter data, and the navigation services data, generate dispatch center-proposed trajectory data representative of the proposed, optimized flight trajectory, and send the dispatch center-proposed trajectory data to at least one user comprised of the system installed in the first aircraft, the air navigation services provider, or both.