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Patent Inventor Names
Gary Stephen Shuster0
Date of Patent
January 25, 2011
0Patent Application Number
115503910
Date Filed
October 17, 2006
0Patent Citations Received
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A system operates to guide an aircraft to or along a route designed to maintain the aircraft within a safe glide distance of an acceptable emergency landing area. The system uses a database of emergency landing areas with glide characteristics of an aircraft to determine a route that minimizes travel time or other specified parameter, while keeping the aircraft within a safe glide distance of a landing area in the database meeting the landing requirements for the aircraft.
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