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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2018
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
David Garrido-Lopez, Tres Cantos, ES;
Maxim Constantijn Vos, Madrid, ES;
Johan De Prins, Molenstede, BE;
Anne Jacqueline Gertruda Theodora Scholtes, Delft, NL;
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and electronic device for providing an optimal quantity of aircraft fuel. The method comprises collecting recorded flight data from past flights of an aircraft; determining aircraft specific performance correction parameters per flight phase, using the recorded flight data; collecting a flight plan of the aircraft; determining the total fuel required for the given flight plan, using the aircraft specific performance correction parameters; determining a single synthetic drag factor (ϵ) and a single synthetic fuel factor (ϵ) that, when used by the aircraft FMS, yield the said total fuel required for the given flight plan; receiving an estimated total fuel required determined by the aircraft FMS based on the flight plan, the single synthetic drag factor (ϵ) and the single synthetic fuel factor (ϵ). The method allows reducing the fuel weight and total flight cost, and is particularly advantageous for FMS which only admit one single drag factor and one single fuel factor.