FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED TACTICAL COMMANDS FOR USE WITH AN AIRCRAFT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME

摘要

A flight management system (24) for use in automatically generating a flight path trajectory (26) for an aircraft (10) is provided. The flight path trajectory including a plurality of waypoints (28) and a plurality of vectors (30) extending between each waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, the flight management system including a processor (302) is configured to calculate a first flight path trajectory (36) including an origin waypoint (40) and a destination waypoint (42), receive a tactical command indicating a change in flight trajectory, and calculate a second flight path trajectory (38) based at least in part on the tactical command, the calculated second flight path trajectory including a departure waypoint along the first flight path trajectory, an intercept waypoint (48) along the first flight path trajectory, and a departure vector from the departure waypoint (46) to the intercept waypoint.