Patent ID: 8543267

Claim:
A system for calculating flight predictions of an aircraft, the system comprising: at least one sensor configured to capture first atmospheric data (WM, TM) in the vicinity of the aircraft; an interface to a computing capability configured to input second atmospheric data (WF, TF) at waypoints in front of the aircraft; and said computing capability being configured to merge said first and second atmospheric data into third atmospheric data (W, T) for calculating flight predictions which are substantially continuous from one leg of said flight predictions to another leg in front of the aircraft, wherein said first and second atmospheric data are merged by calculating a linear weighting of the first and second atmospheric data according to coefficient K and formulae W=WM×(1−K)+WF×K and T=TM×(1−K)+TF×K, and wherein said coefficient K is a function of values of projected horizontal X and vertical H distances between a predicted point and a position of the aircraft in relation to predetermined thresholds D a , D b , H a , H b .