In an aspect, a system for digital communication of a flight plan for an electric aircraft to air traffic control including a sensor configured to detect a plurality of measured flight data. The system further includes a flight controller configured to receive the plurality of measured flight data from the sensor, generate a proposed flight plan as a function of at least an air traffic database, transmit the proposed flight plan and at least a separation element to at least an air traffic control operator, and determine a confirmation flight plan by an air traffic communication module as a function of the at least a separation element. The system further includes a pilot display, wherein the pilot display is configured to receive the confirmation flight plan from the flight controller and display the confirmation flight plan to a pilot that is to be commanded by the pilot.

The method S200 can include: at an aircraft, receiving an audio utterance from air traffic control S210, converting the audio utterance to text, determining commands from the text using a question-and-answer model S240, and optionally controlling the aircraft based on the commands S250. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from the air traffic control (ATC) stream.

A system and method for pilot assistance in an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The system generally includes a pilot control and a flight controller. The pilot control is attached to the eVTOL aircraft. The pilot control is configured to transmit an input relating to the flight path of the aircraft. The flight controller is communicatively connected to the pilot control. The flight controller is configured to receive the input relating to the flight path, generate an output of a recommended flight maneuver as a function of the input, and display the recommended flight maneuver.

A system for automated flight plan reporting for an electric aircraft, the system including a flight controller coupled to the electric aircraft configured to receive a digital datum from a remote device, generate a plan adjustment datum as a function of the digital datum, and transmit the plan adjustment datum to a pilot display, a pilot display coupled to the electric aircraft, wherein the pilot display is configured to receive the plan adjustment datum from the flight controller, display the plan adjustment datum to a user; and receive a confirmation datum from the user.

The method can include: determining sensor information with an aircraft sensor suite; based on the sensor information, determining a flight command using a set of models; validating the flight command S130; and facilitating execution of a validated flight command. The method can optionally include generating a trained model. However, the method S100 can additionally or alternatively include any other suitable elements. The method can function to facilitate aircraft control based on autonomously generated flight commands. The method can additionally or alternatively function to achieve human-in-the-loop autonomous aircraft control, and/or can function to generate a trained neural network based on validation of autonomously generated aircraft flight commands.

A system or optimizing a flight plan for an electric aircraft is provided. The system includes, a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured t receive a plurality of measured flight data from a remote device, identify at least an aircraft requirement as a function of the plurality of measured flight data, generate at least a desired flight plan as a function of at least a plurality of measured flight data and the at least an aircraft requirement, and determine an optimized flight plan as a function of the at least a desired flight plan.

A host aircraft includes a flight data system, the latter including a mobile device, central data server, and transceiver. The mobile device has a processor, memory programmed with a method embodied as computer-readable instructions, and a radio frequency (RF) communications circuit, GPS receiver, and sensor suite. The sensor suite collects raw flight data. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the mobile device to process the raw flight data into synthesized data, and filter out human-induced motion of the mobile device from the synthesized data using a filtering model, and thereby generate time-stamped filtered flight data. The central data server is in wireless communication with the RF communications circuit, and receives the time-stamped filtered flight data therefrom. The transceiver, which is communicatively coupled to the central data server, disseminates the time-stamped filtered flight data to a user located remotely from the host aircraft.

An apparatus is provided for detecting and avoiding objects in real-time. The apparatus includes a first sensor that collects environmental data and a second sensor that collects external data corresponding to an external object within a detection range from the apparatus. The apparatus further includes a processor that, in real-time, calculates a minimum distance to avoid the external object, based at least in part on the environmental data and the external data, monitors the environmental data and the external data, and controls the apparatus to avoid the external object based on the calculated minimum distance and the monitored environmental data and external data.

A method of inspection or maintenance of a curved ferromagnetic surface using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a releasable crawler is provided. The method includes: flying the UAV from an initial position to a pre-perching position in a vicinity of the ferromagnetic surface; autonomously perching the UAV on the ferromagnetic surface; maintaining magnetic attachment of the perched UAV to the ferromagnetic surface; releasing the crawler from the magnetically attached UAV onto the ferromagnetic surface; moving the crawler over the curved ferromagnetic surface while maintaining magnetic attachment of the released crawler to the ferromagnetic surface; inspecting or maintaining the ferromagnetic surface using the magnetically attached crawler; and re-docking the released crawler with the perched UAV.

An aircraft receives pseudorange input from a plurality of satellites of an augmentation system. Each pseudorange input includes a precise position solution and error data. The aircraft receives a high frequency measurement from an inertial navigation system. The aircraft applies the precise position solution, error data, and high frequency measurement to a set of parallel Schmidt extended Kalman filters to produce a corrected position solution and integrity data. The aircraft applies the integrity data to a receiver autonomous integrity monitoring system to produce a protection level for the corrected position solution. The aircraft performs an aircraft operation using the corrected position solution and protection level.