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7590484 Safe runway aircraft arrival and departure system using split runway design  
A Safe Runway Aircraft Arrival and Departure System Using Split Runway Design comprising a linear runway divided into separate landing strip and takeoff strip portions. Arriving aircraft land on...
7586438 Navigation with satellite communications  
A Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite is used for broadcasting differential navigation corrections. Using LEO satellites, the “footprint” of the beam is much smaller than for geosynchronous...
7584046 Method for assisting low altitude navigation of an aircraft  
A method for assisting low-altitude navigation of an aircraft equipped with a system suited to determine a flight-plan ground trajectory based on intermediate points P at an altitude alt(P), and...
7546206 System and method for suggesting transportation routes  
A computer-implemented method of providing a suggested transportation route includes receiving a set of operational parameters and weather data. At least one transportation route corresponding to...
7542829 Low earth orbit satellite command planning device and method, and low earth orbit satellite control system including the same  
Disclosed is a command planning apparatus of a low-earth orbit satellite, and a low-earth orbit satellite control system including the same. The present invention automates the process of executing...
7522977 Method and a device for assisting the piloting of an aircraft during an approach phase  
A method for landing an aircraft includes determining the aircraft's deviation from its approach path so as to define a first point of the aircraft's heading. A first straight line passing through...
7515998 Information layer for a vehicular control network and method  
A system and method to provide extensibility to an existing vehicular control network. To provide such extensibility, an information layer network incorporating a protocol such as an Ethernet...
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...
7502684 Method and system for the automatic piloting of an aircraft on the approach to an airdrop position  
A method of automatic piloting of an aircraft during a phase of approach to a predetermined airdrop position includes automatically applying a speed profile with decreasing speed such that the...
7499795 Method and device for assisting in the navigation of an airplane on the ground at an airport  
Method and device for assisting in the navigation of an airplane on the ground at an airport. The device ( 1 ) comprises means ( 14 ) for transmitting an alarm signal, at least if an airplane...
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...
7477985 Method and apparatus for displaying TCAS information with enhanced vertical situational awareness  
Systems and methods are provided for using a display system for a first vehicle. The system includes a processor adapted to receive data representative of a position of the first vehicle and...
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...
7471997 Landing-control device and landing-control method for aircraft  
A landing-control device is provided having a new structure for carrying out landing control of an aircraft. A detecting unit 10 detects at least a relative altitude from a landing surface to an...
7457690 Systems and methods for representation of a flight vehicle in a controlled environment  
Systems and methods for representing a flight vehicle in a controlled environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises a communications link that extends between a ground-based...
7451023 Collaborative system for a team of unmanned vehicles  
A system collaboratively and autonomously plans and controls a team of unmanned vehicles within an environment. A mission planning component creates a mission plan for a plurality of members of the...
7450004 Systems and methods for handling information from wireless nodes, including nodes for communication with aircraft  
Systems and methods for handling information from wireless nodes, including nodes for communication with aircraft, are disclosed. A system in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes 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...
7428451 Method and device for ensuring the safety of a low-altitude flight of an aircraft  
A method and device for ensuring the safety of a low-altitude flight of an aircraft is disclosed, wherein low-altitude flight is flight along a flight trajectory at low altitude, for example 500...
7428450 Method and system for using a database and GPS position data to generate bearing data  
A method and system for providing a bearing from a vehicle to a transmitting station are described. The method includes accessing a database to obtain transmitter position information for the...
7417641 Aeronautical chart display apparatus and method  
A method and apparatus for converting electronic display aeronautical chart data to aeronautical chart data that is tailored for an avionics display is disclosed. The method and apparatus received...
7415336 Methods, devices, and systems for automatic flight logs  
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for automatic flight logs. One method includes receiving one or more location data points associated with a flight, automatically recording the one or...
7412324 Flight management system with precision merging  
The present invention is a flight management system with precision merging that may determine a rejoin turn location based upon a heading to allow proper spacing between an aircraft and an...
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...
7359703 Adaptive communications system and method  
System and method for the adaptive control of VHF communications in aircraft. In one embodiment, the invention includes an adaptive communications system for an aircraft having a communications...
7337063 Method and system for using database and GPS data to linearize VOR and ILS navigation data  
A method and system for determining a deviation of a vehicle from a desired course are described. The method includes receiving bearing signals from a transmitter, accessing a database, on the...
7333887 Method and system for tactical gate management by aviation entities  
A computer implemented method for an aviation system to manage the temporal assignment of airport gates for use by a plurality of aircratf includes the steps of: (a) collecting and storing data,...
7313475 Delay banking for air traffic management  
A method and associated system for time delay banking for aircraft arrival time, aircraft departure time and/or en route flight position. The delay credit value for a given flight may decrease with...
7313143 Method for diversity site group operations in air/ground communications  
Shortcomings in conventional Very High Frequency (VHF) Digital Link Mode 3 (VDL-3) communication techniques for implementing air/ground (A/G) diversity site group (DSG) communication are identified...
7280896 Process and device for constructing a synthetic image of the environment of an aircraft and presenting it on a screen of said aircraft  
A device for constructing a synthetic image of an aircraft environment may include information sources having information relating to the aircraft and to its environment. An information processor...
7269513 Ground-based sense-and-avoid display system (SAVDS) for unmanned aerial vehicles  
The present invention is a Sense-And-Avoid Display System (SAVDS) that integrates airborne target position data from a ground-based radar with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) position data from the...
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...
7256728 Aircraft avoidance system for prohibiting an aircraft from entering an exclusion zone  
The present invention relates to an avoidance system and method for directing an aircraft away from an exclusion zone. The exclusion zone may be any three dimensional space for example about a...
7254464 System and methods for adaptive control of robotic devices  
Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of...
7248963 Method and system for aircraft flow management  
A method for managing the flow of a plurality of aircraft at an aviation resource, based upon specified data and operational goals pertaining to the aircraft and resource and the control of...
7236861 Mission planning system with asynchronous request capability  
A system processes asynchronous requests from members of a team of autonomous unmanned vehicles. The system includes a user request interface for receiving a request from a single team member and a...
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...
7228207 Methods and systems for routing mobile vehicles  
The present invention relates to methods and systems for routing mobile vehicles under maintenance and operational constraints. In the case of aircraft, the methods and systems may generate an...
7222017 Method and system for entering and displaying ground taxi instructions  
A system and method are provided for the efficient entry and display of ground taxi routes on an electronic airport map display. The system may include a touchscreen entry device, a display device,...
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...
7212918 Aircraft traffic warning system using an ad-hoc radio network  
Methods and apparatus are provided for a traffic warning system (TWS) for light aircraft. The TWS comprises a processor coupled to a transceiver, adapted to measure signal strength and send/receive...
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...
7207045 Real time multi-task process and operating system  
The invention provides for a real-time multi-task operating process in which a set of fixed adjustable duration observation windows are defined having an allocation stage, in each observation...
7203596 Air traffic information display system  
An air traffic information display system includes a server having data manager. The data manager includes a first interface connected with a first database server and a plurality of second...
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...
7162335 Graphic airways displays for flight management systems  
Methods and apparatus are provided for interactively building flight paths for entry into an aircraft flight management system (FMS). The apparatus comprises a database containing map information,...
7151995 Method for the prediction of air traffic events, especially for assistance in decision-making for airlines and airports  
In a method for the prediction of air-traffic events, with sending means being distributed on the sites of the air-traffic actors, and with data-processing means communicating with these sending...
7133754 System and method for using airport information based on flying environment  
A method, system, and computer program product for using airport information based on the flying environment are provided. When a helicopter is determined to be approaching a runway, ground...
7120537 System and method for characterizing traffic behavior at an airport  
A method is provided for characterizing traffic behavior at an airport. Scheduled and real-time flight information for the airport is obtained and used to determine, over a selected interval of...
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