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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2011
Randy Lynn Walter, Ada, MI (US);
Randy Lynn Walter, Ada, MI (US);
GE Aviation Systems, LLC, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A flight management system for use in automatically generating a flight path trajectory for an aircraft. The flight path trajectory includes a plurality of waypoints and a plurality of vectors that extend between each waypoint of the plurality of waypoints. The flight management system includes a processor that is configured to calculate a first flight path trajectory including an origin waypoint and a destination waypoint. A tactical command that indicates a change in flight trajectory is received. A second flight path trajectory based at least in part on the tactical command is calculated. The calculated second flight path trajectory includes a departure waypoint along the first flight path trajectory, an intercept waypoint along the first flight path trajectory, and a departure vector from the departure waypoint to the intercept waypoint.