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(11) | EP 2 575 120 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Systems and methods for processing flight information |
| (57) Systems and methods for processing flight information. Using a flight plan/route
message and other flight information (aircraft type and navigation database information),
the portion of the message containing the flight plan or route is decoded and translated
to construct a ground-based flight route comprising a list of waypoints and associated
flight information. The list of waypoints may then used in calculations performed
by a flight trajectory predictor to identify spatially associated weather information
and/or to create an updated flight plan or route (e.g., by adding or changing waypoints
in a flight object) and thereafter transmit that information to users. Prior to transmitting
any updated flight plan/route, the associated waypoints and other flight information
must be translated and encoded into the required format for inclusion in an outgoing
(i.e., uplinked) flight plan/route message.
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