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7623044 Runway and taxiway turning guidance  
According to an example embodiment, a method includes receiving data about an aircraft that is moving on a surface using at least a first wheel, the data descriptive of physical characteristics of...
7619234 Ultraviolet monitoring system  
An ultraviolet radiation emission unit includes a housing and an aperture located on the housing. A radiation source includes a light emitting diode configured to emit radiation having a wavelength...
7612688 Inflight weather service  
A weather briefing system that may be used in the cockpit to provide near real-time graphic and text weather information. Weather information and pilot reports are fed to the cockpit from, e.g., a...
7605688 Vehicle location determination system using an RFID system  
A vehicle location determination system including a radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogator system positioned on a vehicle; and, a plurality of passive RFID tags positioned in an...
7602407 Method for automatically generating graphically displayed indicating instruments  
The invention relates to a method for automatically generating graphic display instruments for measured, regulation and/or control values, comprising the following steps: a) selection of a display...
7598888 Rotary wing aircraft proximity warning system with a geographically based avoidance system  
A safety enhancement warning system includes an avoidance system which communicates with a multiple of geographical positional systems. A geographic algorithm of the avoidance system utilizes a...
7595739 Wireless engine monitoring system  
A wireless engine monitoring system (WEMS) includes an engine monitoring module that is mounted directly on an aircraft engine and records, stores, encrypts and transmits full flight engine data....
7592929 Runway and taxiway turning guidance  
A pilot is maneuvering an aircraft on a ground surface, such as a runway or taxiway. On a cockpit display, the pilot sees a scaled aircraft symbol overlaying a moving map on a cockpit display. The...
7592926 Light-emitting diode assembly for use in heads-up display systems of propeller-driven aircraft  
Described is a heads-up display system for an aircraft having a rotating propeller assembly. The heads-up display system includes an electrical interconnection sheet and a plurality of...
7590134 System for transmitting asynchronous data packets  
A system for processing asynchronous data includes a plurality of packeting modules configured to packet asynchronous data; and a message composition module connected to the plurality of packeting...
7589645 System and method for determining aircraft hard landing events from inertial and aircraft reference frame data  
This invention allows for the precise determination of an aircraft's landing conditions and whether an aircraft has experienced a hard landing that exceeds the allowable design loads of the...
7589644 Method and onboard device to assist running in an airport  
The invention relates to a method to help a person responsible for a vehicle on an airport to follow running procedures in the airport, the vehicle including a device for using the method,...
7589641 Hazard navigation light for wind turbines  
A wind power installation includes a pylon and a machine housing mounted thereon. The pylon accommodates the rotor of the wind power installation and the generator for producing energy. Wind power...
7586928 Process and device for deterministic transmission of asynchronous data in packets  
A deterministic transmission process for asynchronous data in packets stores data arriving in an asynchronous manner in registers as and when it arrives. The data is sent to one of several...
7586422 Determination of runway landing conditions  
The invention discloses differing embodiments of methods, aircraft, and apparatus for determining the landing conditions of a runway. In one embodiment, braking data may be collected from an...
7581002 Methods and systems for network failure reporting  
Methods and systems for alerting airline personnel to potential aircraft data network security breaches is provided. The airline personnel includes at least one of flight crew personnel and...
7580377 Systems and method of datalink auditory communications for air traffic control  
A system and method for engaging in two-way communication between a pilot and an air traffic controller by speech and hearing processes wherein spoken messages are compared to a database of...
7579980 Radar based ground vehicle collision prevention  
The present invention comprises systems and methods for preventing collisions between aircraft and ground vehicles. In one embodiment, a system includes a proximity detection unit and a transducer...
7573396 Air craft emergency lighting system  
An aircraft emergency lighting system including: a plurality of units having communication devices arranged to communicate wirelessly with a master controller, wherein each unit is wired to a...
7570178 Traffic display  
The present invention is directed to a traffic display for an aircraft, which includes a vertical traffic indicator. The vertical traffic indicator includes flight levels, depicted utilizing...
7567187 Taxiway awareness and advisory system  
Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying appropriate identifiers on aircraft taxiways on an aircraft flight deck display. Data representative of taxiway segments, in which each taxiway...
7567186 Information and notification system using passenger service units in an aircraft  
An information and notification system onboard an aircraft includes a databus that receives information transmitted from outside the aircraft via an interface and a director or control unit, as...
7564371 System having termination for data loading port  
A subsystem of an avionics system is operated in a first mode for receiving software via a port; and in a second mode in accordance with a circuit that includes a terminator coupled to the port. By...
7557734 Airborne visibility indicator system and method  
A system for providing an objective visibility measurement to a flight crew preferably includes a LIDAR system ( 100 ), an evaluation unit ( 150 ), and a crew interface ( 200 ). In at least one...
7557733 Airfield lighting system with regulator selector  
An airfield series circuit includes a transfer relay having first and second sides, and a primary regulator operatively coupled to an airfield series loop of an airfield at the first side of the...
7551105 Virtual host isolation and detection of embedded operational flight program (OFP) capabilities  
The present invention relates to an object oriented architecture that includes a plurality of host aircraft interface objects that enable a plurality of different host aircraft or variants to be...
7545288 Support system for the monitoring of an air outlet valve in an aircraft  
The invention proposes that a camera ( 18 ) takes a technical picture of an air outlet valve ( 10 ) of an aircraft, and the picture taken of the outlet valve ( 10 ) is displayed on a picture...
7541944 Systems and methods for collision avoidance  
Systems and methods for collision avoidance are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a proximity warning system operatively coupled to the aircraft and adapted to monitor a...
7535380 Optical device for indicating the glide angle for aircraft  
Optical device for indicating the glide angle for aircraft, comprising at least one unit ( 10 ) for generating a light ray with a predefined colour, at least one unit ( 20 ) for transmitting said...
7525448 Enhanced vision system and method for an aircraft  
An aircraft optical display system for implementing an enhanced vision system based on weather conditions is described. The display system includes a plurality of imaging sensors configured to...
7515070 Method and device for checking plane's entry into a dive and anti-dive devices for planes using the same  
A method is disclosed for checking model planes entering into a dive, as well as an anti-dive method and apparatus. The method of checking planes includes installation of a first optical sensor in...
7515069 Multifunctional avionic display  
A display screen for displaying multiple sets of information is provided. The display screen includes at least one region of a select color designated to convey a first set of information and a...
7512462 Automatic contingency generator  
An autonomous air vehicle comprises a flight control system and an automatic contingency generator for automatically determining a contingent air vehicle route for use by the flight control system...
7512258 System and method for passive wire detection  
Method and system for passively detecting wires from a mobile transport system is provided. The method includes, pre-processing a digital image taken from a digital camera of the transport system,...
7511635 Automatic method for transmitting monitoring alarms from an aircraft to the ground  
The information relates to a method of transmitting information between a communications management unit on board an aircraft and a ground air control system, characterized in that it comprises the...
7509810 Inter-turbine temperature display compensation method  
Control logic, and a method implemented by the control logic, compensates for mismatched inter turbine temperatures between two gas turbine engines and displays a biased inter turbine temperature...
7505835 System and method for producing flight pathway  
A system and method for displaying a three-dimensional image of airspace includes a series of translucent, horizontal “pavers” that lie like stepping stones marking the selected flight path. In...
7495198 System and method for improving nighttime visual awareness of a pilot flying an aircraft carrying at least one air-to-air missile  
A method for improving nighttime visual awareness of a pilot flying an aircraft carrying an air-to-air missile including one or more one gimbaled imaging sensor. The method includes providing a...
7489992 Method and system for remotely communicating and interfacing with aircraft condition monitoring systems  
A method and corresponding system remotely communicate and interface with an Aircraft Condition Monitoring System (ACMS) on an aircraft. The method and system offer a global communication...
7482950 Method and apparatus for handling data and aircraft employing same  
These teachings present triple data transport redundancy in the form of three data bus interfaces that are each designed and manufactured independently from one another and compatible with a common...
7477164 Vertical profile display using color filled bands to provide terrain awareness  
The flight display includes a vertical terrain profile display having a format that includes a side-on vertical terrain profile comprising a plurality of color filled vertical alerting bands...
7477145 Airport operations monitoring system  
A system for monitoring aircraft/airport operations includes a controller operatively coupled to a network, a data storage device comprising flight information data that is operatively coupled to...
7474962 Methods and systems of relative navigation for shipboard landings  
A method for guiding the approach and landing of an aircraft is provided. The method involves receiving navigation information from the aircraft, receiving navigation information from an aircraft...
7471214 Intuitive wind velocity and direction presentation  
A method for displaying the direction of an external force relative to a craft is provided. The method comprises obtaining direction data for an external force, obtaining craft directional data,...
7467031 Inflight graphical display of meteorological phenomena and method therefor  
An improved avionics display unit graphically presents meteorological phenomena data to a pilot enroute utilizing conventional pilot report (PIREP) information which includes meteorological...
7467030 Flight control indicator for an aircraft  
A flight control indicator for an aircraft includes a central unit that determines a change of vertical or lateral trajectory. A display, which may present a first indicator of a next vertical...
7466243 System and method for passive wire detection  
A hardware system for passively detecting wires from a mobile transportation system is provided. The hardware system includes a main processor in the hardware system that uses plural commands to...
7466220 Head-up display apparatus and mirror unit for the same  
Providing a head-up display apparatus capable of receiving a mirror, which projects from a line of an instrument panel when in use, without increasing a receiving section and spoiling a beauty of...
7460866 Position location for airborne networks  
A wireless communications system, and a corresponding method, for use with an aircraft, includes airborne pico cell base stations mounted on the aircraft, the base stations capable of communication...
7456756 Wireless engine monitoring system  
A wireless engine monitoring system (WEMS) includes an engine monitoring module that is mounted directly on an aircraft engine and records, stores, encrypts and transmits full flight engine data....