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System and method for flight plan data capture

  • US 7,966,122 B2
  • Filed: 05/12/2006
  • Issued: 06/21/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing, to a user, flight plan data for an air trip of interest from a first location to a second location, the method comprising:

  • collecting over a period of days air traffic data including at least one of an as-filed, an as-cleared and an as-flown flight plan from an air traffic data feed;

    extracting a plurality of the flight plans from the collected air traffic data, the extracted flight plans each including a flight plan route;

    storing the extracted flight plans in a database;

    storing at least one of time data and weather data pertinent to the extracted flight plans in the database;

    receiving at a database manager a request from a user for flight plan data associated with the air trip of interest;

    accessing and abstracting, from the flight plan database, flight plan data pertinent to the trip of interest, wherein the flight plan data pertinent to the trip of interest relates to a plurality of accessed routes;

    ranking each of the accessed routes according to an estimated probability that such route would be selected as part of a cleared flight plan for the air trip of interest; and

    providing information, based on such ranking, from the abstracted flight plan data including a flight plan route to the user.

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