Title:
FLIGHT PLANNING METHODS AND SYSTEMS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/132002
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
An electronic flight planning system is provided, arranged to implement a preferred method for identifying conflicts between flight plans for aircraft. In the preferred method, the system receives, as data input from one or more users, a plurality of flight plans each defining a flight by an aircraft; the system determines, for each aircraft and its respective received flight plan, a three- dimensional region of potential conflict, representative both of the uncertainty in the position of the aircraft and of a region of air exclusion appropriate for the aircraft or for the respective received flight plan; and the system determines, on the basis of the determined regions of potential conflict, whether one of the received flight plans is in conflict with any of the other received flight plans.
Inventors:
PENDRY STEVEN (GB)
HOOD TIMOTHY (GB)
HOOD TIMOTHY (GB)
Application Number:
PCT/GB2011/050822
Publication Date:
December 15, 2011
Filing Date:
April 26, 2011
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BAE SYSTEMS PLC (GB)
PENDRY STEVEN (GB)
HOOD TIMOTHY (GB)
PENDRY STEVEN (GB)
HOOD TIMOTHY (GB)
International Classes:
G01C23/00; G08G5/00
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
BAE SYSTEMS PLC, GROUP IP DEPT (Farnborough Aerospace Centre, Farnborough Hampshire GU14 6YU, GB)
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