ADVANCE AUTOMATIC FLIGHT PLANNING USING RECEIVER AUTONOMOUS INTEGRITY MONITORING (RAIM) OUTAGE PREDICTION
First Claim
1. A method for generating a flight plan for a user'"'"'s aircraft using Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) outage information, comprising:
- receiving a flight plan request from the user, the flight plan request including at least aircraft identification information, aircraft type, true airspeed, departure point, departure time, cruising attitude, route of flight, destination, estimated time in-route, and fuel on board;
obtaining RAIM outage information, the RAIM outage information including at least predicted times and locations along a route of flight that an aircraft will lose accurate external navigation service coverage during a flight based on the requested flight plan;
comparing the requested flight plan against the obtained RAIM outage information;
determining if any RAIM outages contained in the RAIM outage information affect the requested flight plan, wherein if it is determined that any RAIM outages affect the requested flight plan,generating one or more flight plan options based on the determined RAIM outages;
prompting the user to select at least one of the one or more generated flight plan options, the one or more generated flight plan options being at least one of a change in departure time, destination, stopovers, route of flight, altitude, and airspeed;
receiving the user'"'"'s one or more selections;
generating a modified flight plan based on the user'"'"'s one or more selections; and
outputting the modified flight plan to the user and storing the modified flight plan in a flight plan database.
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Abstract
A method for generating a flight plan for a user'"'"'s aircraft using Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) outage information is disclosed. The method may include receiving a flight plan request from the user, obtaining RAIM outage information, comparing the requested flight plan against the obtained RAIM outage information, determining if any RAIM outages contained in the RAIM outage information affect the requested flight plan, wherein if it is determined that any RAIM outages affect the requested flight plan, generating one or more flight plan options based on the determined RAIM outages, prompting the user to select at least one of the one or more generated flight plan options, receiving the user'"'"'s one or more selections, generating a modified flight plan based on the user'"'"'s one or more selections, and outputting the modified flight plan to the user and storing the modified flight plan in a flight plan database.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for generating a flight plan for a user'"'"'s aircraft using Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) outage information, comprising:
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receiving a flight plan request from the user, the flight plan request including at least aircraft identification information, aircraft type, true airspeed, departure point, departure time, cruising attitude, route of flight, destination, estimated time in-route, and fuel on board; obtaining RAIM outage information, the RAIM outage information including at least predicted times and locations along a route of flight that an aircraft will lose accurate external navigation service coverage during a flight based on the requested flight plan; comparing the requested flight plan against the obtained RAIM outage information; determining if any RAIM outages contained in the RAIM outage information affect the requested flight plan, wherein if it is determined that any RAIM outages affect the requested flight plan, generating one or more flight plan options based on the determined RAIM outages; prompting the user to select at least one of the one or more generated flight plan options, the one or more generated flight plan options being at least one of a change in departure time, destination, stopovers, route of flight, altitude, and airspeed; receiving the user'"'"'s one or more selections; generating a modified flight plan based on the user'"'"'s one or more selections; and outputting the modified flight plan to the user and storing the modified flight plan in a flight plan database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14)
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8. A flight planning system that generates a flight plan for a user'"'"'s aircraft using Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) outage information, comprising:
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a memory; a flight plan database stored in the memory that stores flight plans; and a RAIM outage prediction unit that receives a flight plan request from the user, obtains RAIM outage information, compares the requested flight plan against the obtained RAIM outage information, determines if any RAIM outages contained in the RAIM outage information affect the requested flight plan, wherein if the RAIM outage prediction unit determines that any RAIM outages affect the requested flight plan, the RAIM outage prediction unit generates one or more flight plan options based on the determined RAIM outages, prompts the user to select at least one of the one or more generated flight plan options, and receives the user'"'"'s one or more selections; and a flight plan processing unit that generates a modified flight plan based on the user'"'"'s one or more selections, and outputs the modified flight plan to the user and stores the modified flight plan in a flight plan database, wherein the flight plan request includes at least aircraft identification information, aircraft type, true airspeed, departure point, departure time, cruising attitude, route of flight, destination, estimated time in-route, and fuel on board, the RAIM outage information includes at least predicted times and locations along a route of flight that an aircraft will lose accurate external navigation service coverage during a flight based on the requested flight plan, and the one or more generated flight plan options are at least one of a change in departure time, destination, stopovers, route of flight, altitude, and airspeed. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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15. A computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device for generating a flight plan for a user'"'"'s aircraft using Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) outage information, the instructions comprising:
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receiving a flight plan request from the user, the flight plan request including at least aircraft identification information, aircraft type, true airspeed, departure point, departure time, cruising attitude, route of flight, destination, estimated time in-route, and fuel on board; obtaining RAIM outage information, the RAIM outage information including at least predicted times and locations along a route of flight that an aircraft will lose accurate external navigation service coverage during a flight based on the requested flight plan; comparing the requested flight plan against the obtained RAIM outage information; determining if any RAIM outages contained in the RAIM outage information affect the requested flight plan, wherein if it is determined that any RAIM outages affect the requested flight plan, generating one or more flight plan options based on the determined RAIM outages; prompting the user to select at least one of the one or more generated flight plan options, the one or more generated flight plan options being at least one of a change in departure time, destination, stopovers, route of flight, altitude, and airspeed; receiving the user'"'"'s one or more selections; generating a modified flight plan based on the user'"'"'s one or more selections; and outputting the modified flight plan to the user and storing the modified flight plan in a flight plan database. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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