Jason N Long

US Patent:

20140081569, Mar 20, 2014

Filed:

Sep 20, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/623581

Inventors:

Rajat Agrawal - Denver CO, US
Jason J. Long - Highlands Ranch CO, US

Assignee:

THE BOEING COMPANY - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G01C 23/00
G05D 1/10

US Classification:

701467, 701528

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for flight planning. Routes from a start point to an end point are identified for a flight of an aircraft from a database of routes. A plurality of different types of routes is present in the database of routes. A number of characteristics of the aircraft are applied to the routes to identify a performance of the aircraft for the routes using a number of weather conditions for the flight. The routes are ranked based on the performance of the aircraft on the routes in meeting a number of goals for the flight to form ranked routes. A portion of the ranked routes are displayed.