Honeywell International Inc.

Jan Hart

David B Dwyer

Anoop S

Sabu Mathew

Niranjan Kumar

Sanju Kuriakose

Janaki Seetharaman

A system for automatically constructing a flight plan that aligns with a boundary line is provided. The system has a controller that is configured to: automatically select a set of geographical (geo) coordinate waypoints along a boundary line using waypoints from the geographical database responsive to flight crew input; refine the set of geo coordinate waypoints using a calculated turn initiation distance and a turn completion distance for every waypoint; further refine the refined set of geo coordinate waypoints based on the course change between waypoints; generate a set of courses and distances between waypoints through computing, for each set of two consecutive waypoints in the further refined set of geo coordinate waypoints, the course and distance between the two consecutive waypoints; and construct the flight plan based on the waypoints in the further refined set of geo coordinate waypoints and the set of courses and distances between waypoints.

System and method to automatically construct a flight plan from a data set for an aerial vehicle

A navigational system includes a display device and logic that simultaneously presents a textual display of an original flight plan and a modified flight plan on the display device. The textual display includes a textlist of waypoints that are on the original flight plan and the modified flight plan and performance data for common waypoints that are on both the original flight plan and the modified flight plan, as well as for new waypoints that are added to the modified flight plan. The performance data for each common waypoint includes performance data for the waypoint on the original flight plan and for the waypoint on the modified flight plan. The system may further include an interface device that allows an operator to change the modified flight plan. The logic updates the textlist of waypoints on the textual display when the modified flight plan is changed and updates the performance data on the textual display for common waypoints when the modified flight plan is changed. The logic may also designate on the textual display waypoints to be removed, which correspond to waypoints that are on the original flight plan but not on the modified flight plan, and, when the modified flight plan is activated to become a new flight plan, the logic removes from the textual display the waypoints that are designated to be removed.

System and method for textually displaying an original flight plan and a modified flight plan simultaneously

A method of simultaneously presenting a textual display of an original flight plan and a modified flight plan includes displaying a textlist of waypoints, copying waypoints from the original flight plan into the modified flight plan, comparing each waypoint on the modified flight plan with waypoints on the original flight plan, determining, in a first determining step, for each modified flight plan waypoint, whether the modified flight plan waypoint originated from a waypoint in the original flight plan, and adding, in a first adding step, the modified flight plan waypoint to the textlist, when it is determined in the determining step that the modified flight plan waypoint did not originate from a waypoint in the original flight plan. The method may also include determining, in a second determining step, a position of the originating waypoint in the original flight plan relative to the position of the modified flight plan waypoint in the modified flight plan, when it is determined in the first determining step that the modified flight plan waypoint originated from a waypoint in the original flight plan; and adding, in a second adding step, the modified flight plan waypoint to the textlist, when it is determined in the second determining step that the position of the originating waypoint in the original flight plan corresponds to the position of the modified flight plan waypoint in the modified flight plan.

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Glendale, AZ, United States of America

Jan Hart