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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2017
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Geun Il Kim, Woodinville, WA (US);
Roy S. Alcantara, Seattle, WA (US);
Monica S. Alcabin, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven J. Moskalik, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard A. Herald, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Caroline Klein, Bothell, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A flight management system which has access to customized information concerning the actual characteristics of a specific airplane or a specific fleet of airplanes of the same model when computing a predicted flight profile and associated trip prediction parameters. This up-to-date airplane-specific or fleet-specific information is digital data configured as a separately loadable database called a 'customized performance database'. This customized performance database contains a smaller set of performance data—such as fuel flow correction, drag coefficient correction, and re-optimized speed/altitude tables—than is contained in the baseline performance database. The flight management system will continue to use a baseline performance database as a 'limit' on the numbers computed using the customized performance database. The customized performance database can include tables or curves that are customizable by airlines.