Flight Efficiency Solutions to Support Global Sustainability Goals

As we integrate climate change measures into national policies in governments around the world, manufacturing and airlines are committed to supporting Global Sustainability Goals more than ever before. Flight Efficiency technologies play a pivotal role in achieving sustainability goals through the reduction of carbon emissions and noise pollution. Strategies for Sustainability focus on decarbonization advancements in operational efficiency, fleet renewal, renewable energy transition and adapting advanced air traffic management technology. Operational efficiency, which identifies and recommends possible opportunities to save fuel for airlines, meeting safety and on-time schedule, contributes to realization of sustainable aviation goals. Operational efficiency constitutes four-dimensional flight path optimization which is designed for minimizing environmental impacts during all phases of flight with improved safety, reducing pilot workload and enhancing real-time performance.Boeing has researched techniques to improve operational efficiency of flight operations predicting and flying the optimized route, correcting flight profiles predictions dynamically when an opportunity exists based on changing weather, airspace user preferences and history of fuel used. The goal of our research is to develop a system (i.e. an ecosystem of applications and services) that helps airlines improve flight efficiency for decarbonization, thereby reducing operational costs. The Flight Efficiency System (FES) monitors flights proactively identifying reroute or speed opportunities that save fuel, comfort, and other functional time and cost factors to airlines. Identify flexibility in the system from factors in the dynamic airspace. The system provides (when possible) conflict-free reroutes to exploit these opportunities through prompts to active subscribers of the system. These opportunities, known as Flight Advisory Messages (FAM), are accessible to all stakeholders such as the pilot, dispatchers, and air traffic controllers through FES services along with computed benefits and expiry. Stakeholders can discuss, negotiate and complete authorization in real-time.The Flight Efficiency System (FES) models the complete environment with specific user dimensional functional factors impacting terminal-to-terminal flight operations beginning with flight schedules. Uncommon factors are taxi way parameters, appropriate runway selection, optimized fuel quantity, selection of flight profile weather conditions, and real-time constraints as the environment develops. The best runway is based on weather and passenger factor considerations computed ahead of time. Dynamically tracking passenger information allows factoring fuel computation for passenger information. It uses patented algorithms to optimize the vertical and lateral path and time selection to enable the Flight Management Computer (FMC) to fly more economically. Additionally, the system enables pilots to automate the pre-flight FMC data loading process. Changes during the FMC loading process as a result of a clearance or constraint are optimized with the use of an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). The EFB introduces a mechanism to visualize flight efficiency opportunities, whilst meeting airspace constraints and validating calculated fuel and times savings that will reduce the carbon emissions and noise pollution. The FES is, in its own right, an ecosystem. It is fully automated, easy to use, and enables coordination of proposed changes with the airline operations center and other airspace users such as Air Traffic Control (ATC).