Method and apparatus for an improved flight management system providing for linking of an outbound course line from a predetermined position with an existing flight plan

• US 5,797,106 A
• Filed: 03/29/1996
• Issued: 08/18/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honeywell Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.), The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Murray, Daniel J., VonJouanne, Henry V., Turner, Bruce L., Tracy, Ann M., Twiggs, Thomas E., Schraw, George W., Gunn, Peter D., Griffin, John C. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Gary
• Application Number:
  US08/625,672
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 701/200, 701/202, 701/206, 701/3, 701/4, 701/11, 244/175, 73/178 R
• US Class Current: 701/11
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 23/005 Flight directors indicating arrangements specially adapted for rotary gyroscopes G01C19/32
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0202 specially adapted to aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0039 Modification of a flight plan

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