Time-responsive flight optimization system

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364446, 73178R, 340994, G06F16500

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ABSTRACT:
An onboard flight management system produces cost-effective trajectory target signals in response to an input desired time of arrival. Aircraft monitoring systems produce signals corresponding to real-time aircraft parameters including fuel flow rate, airspeed, windspeed, thrust, drag and mass. Stored in memory are aircraft characteristics including time cost, fuel cost, and acceleration due to gravity. A flight computer responds to an input desired time-of-arrival and the real-time parameters and stored characteristics signals and produces cost-effective trajectory target signals. The computer employs multiply regressed drag and fuel flow models which avoid trajectory discontinuities and the trajectory targets are produced using a Fibonacci search technique, which is computationally very efficient.

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