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Flight planning requires accurate weather forecasts so that fuel consumption calculations can account for the fuel consumption... so commercial flight planning systems make extensive use of computers... is required by law to carry out flight planning and flight watch tasks in many commercial operating environments... A flight planning system may need to produce more than one... The basic purpose of a flight planning system is to calculate how much... Few flight planning systems calculate the actual take... Flight planning systems must be able to cope with aircraft flying below... Flight planning systems may need to use the unrounded values in their internal calculations for improved accuracy... Flight planning systems organise this by inserting geographic waypoints at suitable intervals... A flight planning system may have to do quite a lot of analysis in order to determine a... commercial flight planning systems find that an impossible flight plan has been requested... a flight planning system can handle this situation by working backwards along the route... Some flight planning systems use elaborate systems of approximate equations to simultaneously estimate all the changes required... Hence a flight planning system can calculate alternate holding fuel on the basis that the final aircraft weight is... a flight planning system can calculate alternate trip fuel and alternate reserve fuel on the basis that the... A flight planning system can then calculate any destination holding on the basis that the final aircraft weight... A flight planning system can then work back along the route... a flight planning system must carry out checks to ensure that physical constraints... a flight planning system can reduce cost by finding the most economical speed at any given height... To cope with such requirements a flight planning system must be capable of non... the task facing a flight planning system becomes more complicated... A flight planning system must have some fast way of cutting the number of possibilities down to a... flight planning systems may offer extra features to help attract and retain customers... A flight planning system may produce summaries for say the next 4 best routes... A flight planning system can analyse each possibility and select whichever is best for this particular flight... To allow for these situations a flight planning system may produce summaries showing how much fuel would be needed if the aircraft is... A flight planning system may follow these rules and produce a report showing how much fuel is to... A flight planning system can work out how much extra fuel can profitably be carried... A flight planning system can produce a new flight plan for the new route from the diversion point... Some flight planning systems can allow for the change in fuel and show the effect on each aircraft...

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