US 11,928,970 B2
Aircraft and method of adjusting a pilot workload
Stefan Alexander Schwindt, Cheltenham (GB)
Assigned to GE Aviation Systems Limited, Cheltenham (GB)
Filed by GE Aviation Systems Limited, Cheltenham (GB)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/709,409.
Claims priority of application No. 1820118 (GB), filed on Dec. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0184833 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. G08G 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/16 (2006.01); A61B 5/18 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01)
CPC G08G 5/0039 (2013.01) [A61B 5/165 (2013.01); A61B 5/18 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of adjusting a planned pilot workload before a planned flight, the method comprising:
tracking over a time period, using at least one sensor, inputs by a pilot into an avionic system responsive to a request from a flight control computer during one or more flights of an aircraft prior to the planned flight;
determining a rate at which the inputs by the pilot are made;
determining the pilot workload based upon the rate;
correlating, using a controller that is operatively connected to the at least one sensor, the pilot workload with one or more time periods for analysis;
identifying, using a processor that is operatively connected to a controller, which of the one or more time periods comprise pilot workload above a threshold value based on the analysis; and
adjusting, using a controller that is operatively connected to a flight control computer, the pilot workload for the time periods above the threshold value of pre-planned pilot workload of the planned flight.