A method of optimizing a cruise climb of an aircraft. The method includes using vertical navigation and lateral navigation to track the cruise climb; and using tracking of the cruise climb to adjust a climb rate of the aircraft to match an optimal climb rate. In operation, an optimal climb rate profile for optimising fuel consumption of the aircraft during cruise phase is computed and stored and after initiating a cruise climb, the method is used for tracking and adjusting the climb rate of the aircraft to follow the profile.
OPTIMUM CRUISE CLIMB TRACKING FOR REDUCED FUEL CONSUMPTION USING VERTICAL AND LATERAL NAVIGATION
OPTIMALE REISESTEIGFLUGVERFOLGUNG FÜR REDUZIERTEN KRAFTSTOFFVERBRAUCH MIT VERTIKALER UND LATERALER NAVIGATION
SUIVI OPTIMAL DE RÉGIME DE CROISIÈRE POUR RÉDUCTION DE CONSOMMATION DE CARBURANT À L'AIDE DE LA NAVIGATION VERTICALE ET LATÉRALE
2018-02-07
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G01C Messen von Entfernungen, Höhen, Neigungen oder Richtungen , MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS |
Optimum cruise climb tracking for reduced fuel consumption using vertical and lateral navigation
European Patent Office | 2019
|OPTIMUM CRUISE CLIMB TRACKING FOR REDUCED FUEL CONSUMPTION USING VERTICAL AND LATERAL NAVIGATION
European Patent Office | 2018
|NTRS | 1991