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In-aircraft flight planning with datalink integration

  • US 9,280,903 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2014
  • Issued: 03/08/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An in-aircraft system comprising:

  • one or more processing units coupled to a display unit;

    one or more data storage mediums coupled to the one or more processing units, the one or more data storage mediums including instructions which, when executed by the one or more processing units, cause the one or more processing units to implement a flight planning module configured to;

    display on the display unit a pending flight plan;

    implement a first button associated with a display of the pending flight plan such that the first button, if selected, directs the one or more processing units to;

    convert the pending flight plan to a format for sending in a datalink message; and

    cause the pending flight plan to be sent to a ground station in a downlink datalink message without human input to a message applications module corresponding to a class of the downlink datalink message, the message applications module including instructions to display information corresponding to datalink messages on a display unit and to maintain a message log of datalink messages.

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