Aircraft control system
First Claim
1. An aircraft control system, for use at an airport where a plurality of aircraft arrive in an arrival order, to determine a position in the arrival order of a particular aircraft based upon a time at which the particular aircraft reaches a given point located away from the airport, the aircraft control system comprising:
- an acquiring circuit which acquires data on the position and speed of the particular aircraft;
a setting circuit which sets an arbitrary point located farther than the given point from the airport;
a forming circuit which forms a line passing through the given point and the arbitrary point;
a presuming circuit which presumes a route along which the particular aircraft will fly, based upon the line and the position of the particular aircraft; and
a predicting circuit which predicts a time at which the particular aircraft will reach the given point, based upon the presumed route and the speed of the particular aircraft.
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Abstract
An aircraft control system which assist in determining aircraft arrival orders and intervals, reduces controller'"'"'s workloads, and ensures safe aircraft flight operation are provided. An aircraft position display system provided as part of a terminal flight control apparatus for controlling the operation of an airport terminal with the use of radar and so forth employs a plurality of tags, each displaying on a first display screen a flight control instruction composed of heading data, altitude data, and speed data, a change arrangement for allowing a user to change the heading data, altitude data, and/or speed data of the tag independently according to the flight control instruction, a display arrangement for use in a flight control instruction input mode, an arrangement for blinking an entered flight control instruction until a pilot acknowledges the instruction, an arrangement for returning the mode to the original mode when the pilot acknowledges the instruction, and an arrangement for registering final approach FIX (F) data.
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1. An aircraft control system, for use at an airport where a plurality of aircraft arrive in an arrival order, to determine a position in the arrival order of a particular aircraft based upon a time at which the particular aircraft reaches a given point located away from the airport, the aircraft control system comprising:
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an acquiring circuit which acquires data on the position and speed of the particular aircraft; a setting circuit which sets an arbitrary point located farther than the given point from the airport; a forming circuit which forms a line passing through the given point and the arbitrary point; a presuming circuit which presumes a route along which the particular aircraft will fly, based upon the line and the position of the particular aircraft; and a predicting circuit which predicts a time at which the particular aircraft will reach the given point, based upon the presumed route and the speed of the particular aircraft. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method, for use at an airport where a plurality of aircraft arrive in an arrival order, to determine a position in the arrival order of a particular aircraft based upon a time at which the particular aircraft reaches a given point located away from the airport, said method comprising the steps of:
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acquiring data on the position and speed of the particular aircraft; setting an arbitrary point located farther than the given point from the airport; forming a line passing through the given point and the arbitrary point; presuming a route along which the particular aircraft will fly, based upon the line and the position of the particular aircraft; and predicting a time at which the particular aircraft will reach the given point, based upon the presumed route and the speed of the particular aircraft. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for arranging an arrival order of a plurality of aircraft at an airport, said method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining flight data for each aircraft; setting a given point for each aircraft, the given point being located away from the airport; setting an arbitrary point for each aircraft, the arbitrary point being located farther from the airport than the given point for that aircraft; forming a line passing through the given point for each aircraft and the arbitrary point for that aircraft; presuming a route for each aircraft based on the line for that aircraft and the flight data of that aircraft; deriving a time for each aircraft to reach the given point for that aircraft based on the route and the flight data for that aircraft; and arranging the arrival order of the plurality of aircraft based on the derived times of all of the aircraft. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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