The Boeing Company

Timothy Charles Rohr

Geun Il Kim

Jose A Fregnani

Tay Pham

Jose Alexandre Tavares Guerreiro Fregnani

A method of optimizing a cruise climb of an aircraft. The method includes using vertical navigation and lateral navigation to track the cruise climb; and using tracking of the cruise climb to adjust a climb rate of the aircraft to match an optimal climb rate.

Optimum cruise climb tracking for reduced fuel consumption using vertical and lateral navigation

Systems and methods for enhancing takeoff performance by displaying symbology representing an initial pitch angle target that optimizes the amount of payload that can be carried by an airplane. This is accomplished by determining an optimum initial pitch angle at rotation during takeoff which is associated with an optimum ratio of the takeoff safety speed to the stall speed that satisfies a specific set of climb/obstacle constraints. Targeting this optimum initial pitch angle allows the maximum takeoff gross weight that corresponds to the optimum takeoff safety speed/stall speed ratio to be selected.

Optimizing climb performance during takeoff using variable initial pitch angle target

A flight management system is modified so that it can deal with an unpredicted current event happening to an airplane based on non-standard maneuvers that have been carried out previously by other airplanes in similar circumstances. This allows the flight management system to adaptively or dynamically respond to a variety of flight path changes rather than rely solely on a set of fixed responses to predictable events during a flight. Specifically, the flight management system is configured to provide procedural recommendations to a flight crew in real time based on collaboratively filtered historical data such that the flight crew can make smarter choices while operating airplanes.

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Timothy Charles Rohr