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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...
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...
7551990 System and method for management of a ground obstacle display  
Systems and methods for managing a visual display in a ground proximity warning system. In one embodiment, a system includes at least one aircraft sensor system operable to acquire aircraft data...
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...
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...
7499773 Method and apparatus for assisting the piloting of an aircraft at low altitude  
In a method of the invention for assisting the piloting of an aircraft, a guard curve (CGS) is determined as a function of the resources of the aircraft, the position of an obstacle (O) or a...
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...
7482951 Auditory attitude indicator with pilot-selected audio signals  
An auditory attitude indicator for aircraft that includes an audio source providing an audible signal, a′ stereo headset with a left side and a right side, an aircraft avionics system that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7366613 RF wireless communication for deeply embedded aerospace systems  
A wireless communication interface for inertial measurement unit is disclosed. One or more instrumentation sensors, a processor, a wireless radio frequency transceiver with an antenna, and a power...
7363152 Method and system for calculating a flight route  
The invention concerns a method and a system for calculating a flight route between a first position and a second position. According to the method, the first position is chosen as the current...
7327285 System and method for eliminating terrain color confusion in aircraft displays  
An improved system and method for eliminating terrain color confusion in aircraft displays are disclosed. An aircraft display system is described that includes a database for storing terrain data,...
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...
7324002 Outdoor computer  
A method for implementing a weather alarm in an outdoor computer includes defining atmospheric-pressure data repeatedly, defining altitude data repeatedly and essentially simultaneously with the...
7302318 Method for implementing required navigational performance procedures  
A method ( 200 ) is disclosed for designing an RNP approach for an aircraft at a particular runway ( 90 ). The method includes selecting a runway ( 201 ), gathering obstacle data for the obstacle...
7298891 Bare earth digital elevation model extraction for three-dimensional registration from topographical points  
A method ( 300 ) for extracting a digital elevation model from a plurality of raw topographical points representing a plurality of frames representing a plurality of perspectives of a...
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...
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...
7215256 Method and apparatus for displaying attitude, heading, and terrain data  
A method for displaying attitude, heading, and navigation data on a single display is described. The method comprises configuring the display with terrain data, overlaying the terrain display with...
7209052 Method and device for determining a safe altitude for an aircraft  
A method and device for determines a safe altitude for an aircraft. The device includes a unit that determines a clear zone corresponding to a lateral area dependent on the flight of the aircraft....
7205906 Variable enhanced ground proximity warning system look-ahead offset and sub-offset  
The present invention includes a system, method and computer program product for reducing nuisance warnings during low altitude flight conditions and in the presence of low position uncertainty....
7164366 Process and device for detecting on an aircraft an overshoot of design loads at the level of a structural part of said aircraft  
A process and device for detecting on an aircraft an overshoot of design loads at the level of a structural part of the aircraft. The detection device includes a speed measuring device for...
7158152 Method of synthesizing a cartographic imagery  
The invention relates to a method of synthesizing a cartographic image consisting of pixels and representing a terrain overflown by an aircraft, the cartographic image being computed at each pixel...
7158052 Method and system for monitoring the performance of an aircraft during take off  
A system, method and display for monitoring the performance of an aircraft during the take-off maneuver that includes the steps of monitoring the progress of the take-off maneuver by acquiring data...
7106217 Technical design concepts to improve helicopter obstacle avoidance and operations in “brownout” conditions  
A method for flying in a degraded visual environment comprising the steps of collecting environmental data, processing the data and fusing the data together into a combined input output. The output...
7098809 Display methodology for encoding simultaneous absolute and relative altitude terrain data  
A display control device, having a processor structured for receiving terrain elevation information and samples of current position and altitude above ground data; and one or more algorithms...
7088264 Flight safety system monitoring combinations of state values  
A method and system compares combinations of vehicle or aircraft state variables against known combinations of potentially dangerous states. Alarms and error messages are selectively generated...
7075457 Energy index for aircraft maneuvers  
Method and system for analyzing, separately or in combination, kinetic energy and potential energy and/or their time derivatives, measured or estimated or computed, for an aircraft in approach...
7068187 Method, apparatus and computer program product for unstabilized approach alerting  
A method, apparatus and computer program product for assisting the pilot of an aircraft in making a go-around decision. Various aircraft parameters are monitored during the approach to land and a...
7064680 Aircraft terrain warning systems and methods  
Methods and systems are disclosed for preventing aircraft collisions with forward looking terrain avoidance (FLTA) functionality based on a terrain avoidance profile used to evaluate potential...
7043355 Multisource target correlation  
An improved method for correlating between targets in an air traffic control system. A methods or systems according to the invention compare selected components of a first target report to the...
7009531 System for aurally monitoring aeronautical information while in flight  
A system and a method for providing a continuous, semi-continuous and/or repetitive aural signal to an aircraft pilot indicative of a difference between a set value and an actual value for one or...
6995690 Vertical situation display terrain/waypoint swath, range to target speed, and blended airplane reference  
A flight information display for the flight deck of an aircraft showing a pictorial side view of the flight path or the area directly in front of the aircraft area having a selected distance of at...
6980892 Avionics system and method for providing altitude alerts during final landing approach  
An avionics system and method is employed for alerting pilots of low premature descent during final landing approach. The method involves determining Final Approach Flight Safety Altitudes for a...
6967616 Systems and methods for correlation in an air traffic control system of interrogation-based target positional data and GPS-based intruder positional data  
An improved system and methods for correlating an interrogation-based air traffic surveillance intruder, such as an Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) intruder, and a GPS-based air...
6927702 Landing gear warning system  
The present invention provides for a computer that accepts inputs from a surface monitor to determine whether the terrain below the aircraft is water or land. In a preferred embodiment an improved...
6906641 Apparatus, method and computer program product for helicopter enhanced ground proximity warning system  
An apparatus, method and computer program product for alerting rotary wing aircraft of potentially hazardous proximity to terrain also reduces nuisance warnings and provides a terrain display...
6870490 Display of altitude and path capture trajectories  
Pilot error is reduced and auto pilot operation is improved by the addition of capture information to the information provided on a cockpit display. The capture information, such as, for example,...
6847893 Horizontal/vertical exclusion level determination scheme for RAIM fault detection and exclusion implementation  
A method for satellite receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) real time fault detection and exclusion implementation comprising the following steps: (1) continuously computing a horizontal...
6819266 System and method for reducing the speed of an aircraft  
An aircraft system for reducing the airspeed of an aircraft as it passes through a preselected altitude includes an automatic throttle system including a computer, a device for inputting a...
6785594 Ground proximity warning system and method having a reduced set of input parameters  
The ground proximity warning system and method provide a number of alerts based upon a substantially reduced list of input parameters relative to a conventional ground proximity warning system and...
6744373 Portable gas alarm device  
Disclosed is a portable gas alarm device easy to be fabricated as a small-sized one handy to carry and high in convenience for use. The portable gas alarm device comprises a gas alarm device body...
6737988 Instrumentation and control circuit having multiple, dissimilar sources for supplying warnings, indications, and controls and an integrated cabin pressure control system valve incorporating the same  
An integrated cabin pressure control system valve that uses a dual, redundant channel electronic control unit for both control of the valve and to supply alarm, indication, and control signals to...
6711478 Receiver-autonomous vertical integrity monitoring  
A system and method for determining the vertical integrity of an altitude component of an aircraft navigational signal through the use of a receiver-autonomous vertical integrity monitoring (RAVIM)...
6710723 Terrain data retrieval system  
A terrain-awareness system (TAS) provides LOOK-AHEAD/LOOK-DOWN as well as LOOK-UP terrain advisory and warning indications to the pilot of an aircraft of a hazardous flight condition. The TAS...
6704634 Gear retract braking system and method  
A method and system for braking aircraft landing gear wheels after initialization of landing gear retraction. The system includes monitors, controlling components, measurement components, a fault...
6686851 Altitude tape and integral vertical speed indicator  
A device for enhancing altitude awareness in an avionics display is disclosed. The device includes an altitude indicator that displays a current altitude on the avionics display. A scrolling...
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