System and method for flight plan data capture
First Claim
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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Abstract
A system and method for providing to a user a candidate list of flight plans that specify one or more planned routes of flight from one location to another location, such routes satisfying certain criteria. These criteria include ranking the candidate list of flight plans according to the probability that the flight plan may be allowed or cleared by a controlling authority based on historic cleared flight plans; further qualifying this list by considering only candidate flight plans cleared during specified weather conditions; or specified time periods; or requested speed and/or altitude and/or aircraft type of flight parameters. Various embodiments include providing the candidate list of flight plans to the user by means of a communication system that is composed of a combination of a wide-area network, a wireless network or the internet. Additionally, an embodiment includes providing the flight plan data to a global positioning system (GPS) of a user.
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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:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. 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:
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collecting over a period of days live air traffic data including at least one of an as-filed, an as-cleared and an as-flown flight plan from a live data feed; extracting and storing flight plan data from the collected live air traffic data, the flight plan data stored in a flight plan database, accessible by a starting location and an ending location, the extracted flight plan data including a flight plan route; accessing, from the flight plan database, a plurality of routes pertinent to the trip of interest; and 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 trip of interest, and providing, to the user, information based on such ranking. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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