Methods for formation flying aided by a relative navigation system

摘要

Methods (300) or flying multiple aircraft (2,4) in a predetermined formation in which a relative navigation grid (20) is emitted (302) from at least one of the aircraft (2), a spatial relationship is calculated (304) based on the emitted relative navigation grid, and a relative position of at least one aircraft is altered (308) to position the aircraft in the predetermined formation when the spatial relationship does not conform with the predetermined formation.