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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2011
Applicant:
Joel Kenneth Klooster, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Inventor:
Joel Kenneth Klooster, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of descent trajectory of an aircraft includes an iterative process of selecting meteorological data points along a predicted descent trajectory, generating a wind profile along the predicted descent trajectory for the selected data points, determining a subset fuel cost and a subset time cost based upon the wind profile, selecting the subset that minimizes weighted fuel burn and time error, and calculating an optimized descent trajectory based on the selected subset.