Flight Management Assistance Center Workload Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current flight management centers face inefficiencies in optimizing the assistance of multiple aircraft due to workload imbalances when prioritizing one aircraft over others, particularly during system failures or pilot fatigue, leading to suboptimal management of other aircraft.
Innovation Solution
A flight management assistance center with communication equipment, a database, and a control unit that allows operators to dynamically allocate flight management assistance between multiple stations based on workload, enabling prioritization of critical aircraft while maintaining continuous support for others.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an operator manages a priority aircraft requiring fast landing, then the priority aircraft receives dedicated assistance, but the flight management optimization of other aircraft is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the flight management assistance function into multiple independent stations, each capable of handling aircraft independently. When one station attends to a priority aircraft, other stations continue managing non-priority aircraft, preventing interruption of overall service productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
Each station is designed to be multi-functional, capable of handling both priority and non-priority aircraft management tasks. This allows stations to dynamically switch roles based on workload and priority levels, maintaining overall system productivity while ensuring reliable priority aircraft management.
2Device complexity
If a single operator manages multiple aircraft, then the center structure is simplified, but the operator cannot provide optimized assistance to all aircraft simultaneously during high workload periods
Solution Approach 1:
The center is segmented into multiple stations rather than using a single operator model. This segmentation increases structural complexity but enables parallel processing of multiple aircraft, thereby improving productivity and assistance quality without overwhelming individual operators.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple stations are combined into a coordinated network under centralized control, sharing resources and information. This merging allows the system to handle more aircraft simultaneously while maintaining simplified operational procedures through the central control unit that manages workload distribution.
3Speed
If an operator focuses on one priority aircraft, then that aircraft receives immediate attention, but other aircraft experience delays in receiving optimization advice
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments aircraft management into multiple parallel stations, allowing simultaneous attention to multiple aircraft. Priority aircraft receive immediate focus at one station while other stations continue optimizing non-priority aircraft, eliminating time loss for other flights.
Solution Approach 2:
The system ensures continuous useful action by maintaining multiple active stations that simultaneously perform flight management optimization. While one station handles priority aircraft, other stations continue their optimization tasks without interruption, preventing time loss for non-priority aircraft.
Data Source
AI summary
A center to assist flight management of a plurality of an entity's aircraft comprising a control unit and at least two stations and communication equipment configured to receive data signals and to transmit/receive audio signals to/from each aircraft. The control unit comprises a man-machine interface connected to a central unit, the central unit being connected to a computation unit of each station and to the communication equipment to receive data signals and to transmit/receive audio signals to/from the equipment. Each station comprises, connected to the computation unit, a screen to display the data in the data signals sent by each aircraft and an audio device for the operator to exchange audio signals with the pilots. The central unit is configured to selectively activate/deactivate, as a function of the interactions of an operator with the interface, the exchanges of audio signals with the central unit of each station.