A method of changing the flight path of an aircraft, the aircraft being one in a set of aircraft, each aircraft in the set having a flight path in accordance with a transit schedule, the transit schedule including required loaded periods and replaceable unloaded periods. The method comprises receiving data associated with the set of aircraft, the received data including the transit schedule of each aircraft; storing the received data in a database; receiving a request to transport a load from a requested origin to a requested destination in time frame T; comparing, at a processor, the received request with the received data so as to select one or more preferred aircraft from the set of aircraft, each preferred aircraft having a replaceable unloaded period at time frame T during which that aircraft is scheduled to transit from a scheduled origin to a scheduled destination, the one or more preferred aircraft being selected based on selection criteria including minimising the difference between a scheduled transit time for the aircraft to transit from the scheduled origin to the scheduled destination and an amended transit time for the aircraft to transit from the scheduled origin to the requested origin to the requested destination to the scheduled destination; and changing the flight path of one of the preferred aircraft to transit from the scheduled origin to the requested origin to the requested destination to the scheduled destination during the replaceable unloaded period.
ADAPTING AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PATHS
2018-03-22
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS |
Aircraft Optimum Multiple Flight Paths
NTIS | 1970
|Optimum flight paths of turbojet aircraft
Engineering Index Backfile | 1955
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