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Flight assistant with automatic configuration and landing site selection method and apparatus

  • US 9,310,222 B1
  • Filed: 06/16/2015
  • Issued: 04/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determining aircraft flight configuration during a flight, comprising:

  • (a) establishing aircraft position, altitude, and flight trajectory based upon aircraft position and altitude over time;

    (b) establishing aircraft flight segment based on at least one of time since departure, position, altitude, and flight trajectory;

    (c) determining aircraft attitude from sensing at least one of angle and rate for at least one of pitch, bank, and yaw;

    (d) sensing aircraft acoustics from at least one of airframe vibration and aircraft sound;

    (e) determining an expected aircraft configuration based at least in part on said established aircraft flight segment;

    (f) determining aircraft configuration from said sensed aircraft attitude and said aircraft acoustics for aircraft configurations attributable to said sensed attitude and acoustics for said flight segment; and

    (g) announcing an aircraft configuration different from said expected aircraft configuration.

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