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7626514 Systems and methods for reducing nuisance alerts for helicopter enhanced ground proximity warning systems  
Systems and methods for controlling activation of a look-ahead function of a terrain alert and warning system. The system receives rate of climb and aircraft speed information, compares the rate of...
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...
7587278 Ground operations and advanced runway awareness and advisory system  
A device, method and computer program product for locating aircraft with respect to airport runways and taxiways, determining if a conflict exists between an aircraft having operating the invention...
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...
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...
7564372 Display of hold lines on head-up display  
A head-up display (HUD) is disclosed. The HUD is provided on board an aircraft. The HUD comprises a projector and a combiner. The combiner enables viewing of the world outside of the combiner and...
7516014 System and a method for automatic air collision avoidance  
A system and a method for automatically avoiding collisions between own aircraft and other aircraft. The system includes a computing unit configured to compute a fly away path for own aircraft, a...
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...
7499794 System and method for improved mapping of a location  
A database defining at least one exclusion zone of airport is described. The database includes a computer-implemented memory configured to store and allow retrieval of a plurality of points, the...
7499771 System for flight management  
This flight management system comprises a flight management computer plotting, during the preparation of a flight by the crew, a flight plan with branchoffs from where diversion airport joining...
7483773 System and method for monitoring aircraft for excessive deviation from flight regime  
The present invention relates to a system for detecting deviation from a normal flight regime. The system includes at least one aircraft information system located on an aircraft for detecting an...
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...
7451059 True azimuth and north finding method and system  
A method and a system are recited for obtaining a true azimuth heading for correcting a coarse azimuth heading measured from an observation position to a specific selected target by operating a...
7437225 Flight management system  
The present invention is a system and method for providing flight management to one or more aircraft via a communication link between a fight management system located outside the aircraft and a...
7426387 Wireless, ground link-based aircraft data communication system with roaming feature  
A flight information communication system has a plurality of RF direct sequence spread spectrum ground data links that link respective aircraft-resident subsystems, in each of which a copy of its...
7414546 White anti-collision light utilizing light-emitting diode (LED) technology  
A white anti-collision light mounted on an aircraft utilizes a set of high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and dedicated reflectors to distribute the light in a particular pattern that satisfies...
7414543 Multiple miniature avionic displays  
A display screen for displaying multiple sets of information is provided. In one embodiment, an aviation display screen includes a main window and a plurality of miniature windows. The main window...
7411519 System and method for predicting and displaying wake vortex turbulence  
A circuit and method for predicting an intersection of a host aircraft flight path with the wake vortex of another aircraft.
7398057 Security messenger system  
The invention provides a communication and control system and method including a portable control and display unit, such as a portable handheld pocket PC, an aircraft mounted integrated Global...
7386373 System, method and apparatus for searching geographic area using prioritized spatial order  
A spatial data search method, system and apparatus for identifying particular data of significance around a reference vector through the spatial data. The method involves determining a reference...
7385527 Smart airport automation system  
A smart airport automation system gathers and reinterprets a wide variety of aircraft and airport related data and information around unattended or non-towered airports. Data is gathered from many...
7382288 Display of airport signs on head-up display  
A head-up display (HUD) is disclosed. The HUD is provided on board an aircraft. The HUD comprises a projector and a combiner. The combiner enables viewing of the world outside of the combiner and...
7382286 System and method for the correlation of multiple data feeds  
A method of receiving a first set of target data points from a first data feed and receiving a second set of target data points from a second data feed arrangement. Comparing a time variable...
7382285 Pilot-programmable altitude range filter for cockpit traffic display  
A system and method for filtering various targets (such as ground vehicles, stationary objects, and aircraft) from display on a display screen within the cockpit of an “Own Ship” aircraft. The...
7342514 Display of automatic dependent surveillance (ADS-B) information on head-up display  
A head-up display (HUD) is disclosed. The HUD is provided on board an aircraft. The HUD comprises a projector and a combiner. The combiner enables viewing of the world outside of the combiner and...
7337043 Terrain maneuver advisory envelope system and method  
A terrain advisory system for an aircraft is disclosed. The terrain advisory system includes a processing unit, a display unit coupled to the processing unit where the display unit displays a map,...
7330780 Safety system for aircraft  
This invention relates to a safety system for aircraft, wherein prohibited airspaces which aircraft may not enter are marked on a digitally stored image of the airspace, wherein the aircraft is...
7327284 Smart altitude callout for helicopters  
A method, computer software product, and system to generate altitude callouts according to proximity to a runway at an airport or heliport includes determining whether the helicopter is flying in...
7319438 Stabilization of the effects of jitter on a displayed image  
In an exemplary display system adapted to display an image to an observer using a display where at least one of the display and observer is subjected to physical vibration referred to as jitter,...
7308343 Navigational instrument, method and computer program product for displaying ground traffic information  
The present invention provides an aircraft navigational system including a graphical user interface that is capable of displaying navigational information in a split-screen format. The split-screen...
7307579 Collision alerting and avoidance system  
A collision alerting and avoidance system for use in an aerial vehicle is presented herein. The system comprises a one low profile antenna array disposed on the aerial vehicle. The array includes a...
7299130 Unmanned vehicle  
Methods and apparatuses provide surveillance of a convoy. At least one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) obtains images around the convoy's position to provide information about potential hostile...
7295134 Terrain avoidance method and device for an aircraft  
An aircraft terrain avoidance method and device may employ a collision warning section that transmits a caution signal when the aircraft risks colliding with the terrain at the end of a first...
7286062 Perspective view conformal traffic targets display  
A system and method for displaying traffic targets in a conformal perspective view. The system comprises a display screen for graphical display of data, one or more sensors for obtaining traffic...
7280897 Intervisibility determination  
A system and method for efficient intervisibility determination. The intervisibility determination method of the present invention provides a multiple threat processing capability within a...
7278766 LED based light guide for dual mode aircraft formation lighting  
A lighting device ( 1 ) includes one or more diode light sources ( 32 ), which are configured to emit light into the peripheral edges of a light guide ( 20 ). The light guide ( 20 ) includes a set...
7262730 Method and a station for assisting the control of an aircraft  
A station for assisting the control of an aircraft includes warning means ( 5 ) adapted to deliver an alert for avoiding a later collision when there is a risk that the predicted flight trajectory...
7262713 System and method for a safe depiction of terrain, airport and other dimensional data on a perspective flight display with limited bandwidth of data presentation  
The present invention is directed to a system and method for a safe flight display through increasing situation awareness by an optimal presentation, given limited capacity of the system. The...
7259693 Air vessel tracking system and method  
A vessel tracking system may be used to detect and report an alert condition of a vessel (e.g., an aircraft). A vessel tracking system may monitor one or more travel (e.g., flight) characteristics...
7257487 Hybrid air collision avoidance system  
A hybrid air collision avoidance system (HACAS) is an air collision avoidance system with extended existing air avoidance capabilities and incorporated with new hybrid capabilities to perform...
7236104 Hybrid ground collision avoidance system  
A hybrid ground collision avoidance system (HGCAS) is a ground collision avoidance system with extended existing ground avoidance capabilities and incorporated with new hybrid capabilities to...
7221290 Packetized voice communication method and system  
A packetized voice communication method and system. Techniques are disclosed for supporting communication between aircraft and ground stations using packetized digitally-encoded messages. The...
7212920 Speed dependent variable range display system  
The speed dependent variable display system for a computer-implemented moving-map vehicle display system includes a data conversion module for converting a vehicle speed input signal to a distance...
7212917 Tracking, relay, and control information flow analysis process for information-based systems  
Methods and apparatus for controlling movement of aircraft through a defined air space are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a model of the defined air space. The model is...
7183946 Safety aircraft flight system  
The present invention is a computer system designed to use the conventional devices and special programming of the present invention that will ensure the safe operation of aircraft. The present...
7177763 Method and device for preventing unpermitted approach of airplanes to objects on the ground which are to be protected  
The invention concerns a method for preventing airplanes from impermissibly approaching defendable ground objects, the method suggests that a defendable ground object is assigned a virtual...
7177731 Systems and methods for handling aircraft information received from an off-board source  
Systems and computer-implemented methods for handling incoming aircraft operation instructions are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes receiving from a...
7173545 Aircraft navigation aid method and device  
The invention relates to an aircraft navigation aid method. It comprises the following steps of defining an area to be sensed to the right and to the left of a first hypothetical path of the...
7167782 Flight management system and method for providing navigational reference to emergency landing locations  
An aviation navigational system and method for predicting glide range for an aircraft for specific airports and other potential emergency landing locations in proximity to the aircraft. Information...
7161500 Display device for aircraft and method for displaying detected threats  
This invention concerns a display device for aircraft comprising a display surface ( 15 ) that has a punctual marking ( 11 ) arranged so as to represent the pilot's own airplane and one or more...
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