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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2019
Applicant:
GE Aviation Systems Llc, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Inventors:
Terry Lee Williams, Freeport, MI (US);
Andrew Douglas Gent, East Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Caledonia, MI (US);
Assignee:
GE Aviation Systems LLC, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/0017 (2013.01); G08G 5/003 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aircraft and method for controlling a following aircraft in reference to a target aircraft including receiving, in a flight management system of the following aircraft, information related to the target aircraft, setting a required time of arrival at an achieve-by-point abeam of the target aircraft target reference point, and after the achieve-by-point is reached, flying the following aircraft to maintain a fixed separation until a defined termination point has been reached.