摘要 |
A system and method for enabling a flight management computer (FMC) on a jet aircraft to automatically select the proper take-off thrust to use for a specific aircraft operating at a specific airport, and using a specific runway. A Model/Engine Database (MEDB) is created that assigns a specific aircraft configuration code to the aircraft, based on the model, engine and other factors specific to the aircraft. The aircraft configuration code is used by the FMC to query an Airport/Runway lookup table database that is loaded into the FMC. The Airport/Runway lookup table database provides a take-off thrust code indicating the take-off thrust to be used for the aircraft, based on the airport it is about to depart from, and the specific runway that it is assigned to use. The FMC uses the take-off thrust code to automatically select a specific take-off thrust to be used during the take-off phase of flight.
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