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Methods and systems for presenting en route diversion destinations

  • US 10,109,203 B2
  • Filed: 09/07/2016
  • Issued: 10/23/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of presenting potential diversion airports for an aircraft, the method comprising:

  • identifying, by a processing system, a flight path segment of a plurality of flight path segments between a departure location and a destination location based on a flight plan from the departure location to the destination location;

    identifying, by the processing system, a subset of airports satisfying one or more filtering criteria with respect to the flight path segment;

    obtaining, by the processing system, status information for each airport of the subset of airports from one or more external systems via a communications system onboard the aircraft;

    obtaining, by the processing system, anticipated aircraft status information for each of a plurality of different locations along the flight path segment using one or more onboard systems;

    for each respective airport of the subset;

    determining, by the processing system, a respective viability score for each of the plurality of different locations along the flight path segment based at least in part on the respective status information for the respective airport of the subset and the respective anticipated aircraft status information for each of the plurality of different locations;

    determining, by the processing system, a representative viability score for the respective airport with respect to a length of the flight path segment based on the respective viability scores for the different locations along the flight path segment;

    identifying, from among the subset, a recommended diversion airport based on a ranking of respective airports of the subset of airports according to a respective representative viability score associated with each respective airport of the subset of airports; and

    providing, by the processing system, an indication of the recommended diversion airport associated with the flight path segment on a display device onboard the aircraft.

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