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7634335 Distance estimating method for aircraft taking air navigation restrictions into account  
This method uses for the estimation of a distance, a propagation distance transform considering only the paths which are both accessible to the aircraft taking account of its vertical flight...
7633430 Terrain awareness system with false alert suppression  
A terrain awareness and warning system includes electronics for receiving radar returns and providing terrain and/or obstacle alerts or warnings in response to the radar returns. The electronics...
7633410 Wireless assisted recovery systems and methods  
Systems and methods for assisted recovery. An example method receives at least one of a directional or pitch command signal. Localizer or glide slope signals are generated based on the received...
7633411 Device for signaling risks, risk level map obtained by the device and method for formulating the map  
The device relates to the signaling, to the pilot of a craft, of the risks that it incurs due to obstacles placed in its zone of deployment. This device determines, on the zone of deployment of the...
7630829 Ground incursion avoidance system and display  
An airborne processor is linked to a ground-based, vehicle based, or satellite-based supplier of approaching aircraft data and/or terrain data, including airfield structures. The processor also has...
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...
7590475 Method and system for providing a covert warning notification of a hazard to an aircraft  
A system and method for providing a covert warning notification of a hazard to an aircraft is provided. Generally, the system contains a detection system capable of detecting the hazard, and a...
7584025 In-vehicle device, computer readable medium for controlling the same, and method for controlling navigation device  
An in-vehicle device includes: a hard disk drive for storing data; a communication element for transmitting a message to an user; an input element for receiving an instruction from the user; a...
7580776 Integrated separation assurance method for an aircraft  
A method and system for assuring separation between an aircraft and potential flight hazards is provided. According to the method, an intended path of the aircraft is predicted. A potential hazard...
7571031 Systems and methods for broadcasting an unknown airport advisory  
Systems and methods for advising a flight crew member that an enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS), for example, may continue to provide terrain alerts, cautions, warnings, or the like...
7567862 Actuation response oscillation detection monitor  
A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for monitoring an actuator for a control surface on an aircraft. In one advantageous embodiment, an error signal generated is received in...
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...
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...
7552005 Method for fault diagnosis of a turbine engine  
A method of diagnosing a turbine engine includes the steps of acquiring engine operating parameters; calculating corresponding engine residual values; computing the mean and the standard deviation...
7542876 Method of and apparatus for evaluating the performance of a control system  
A method of and apparatus for evaluating the performance of a control system are disclosed. The method of evaluating the performance of a control system includes calculating a ratio of a first area...
7536241 Control device for a system, and method for operating the control device  
A control device and a method for operating a control device which contains function modules, a scheduler and a priority manager. The control device is connected via data lines to a system to be...
7519456 Maintenance process and device for a radionavigation installation of an aircraft  
Maintenance process and device for a radionavigation installation of an aircraft. The maintenance device ( 1 ) comprises a first means of recording ( 7 ) for recording on a first recording medium...
7512464 System and method for controlling the speed of an aircraft  
A system and method are disclosed for controlling the speed of an aircraft having a preprogrammed speed profile when transitioning from a manually set target speed to the preprogrammed speed...
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...
7489236 Pedestrian alert system for vehicles  
A pedestrian alert system has a manual input mechanism accessible to a person in a first vehicle, and an alert-generating apparatus associated with the first vehicle. The system is characterized in...
7463954 Terrain augmented display symbology  
Terrain augmented display symbology improves a pilot's spatial awareness during aircraft approach and landing. The symbology includes a terrain-tracing, three-dimensional centerline that provides a...
7451021 Model-based fault detection and isolation for intermittently active faults with application to motion-based thruster fault detection and isolation for spacecraft  
The present invention is a method for detecting and isolating fault modes in a system having a model describing its behavior and regularly sampled measurements. The models are used to calculate...
7444211 Method of validating a flight plan constraint  
An FMS flight management computer equipping an aerodyne, complies with a constraint, in particular an altitude constraint, of the flight plan (Dpv) at an imposed waypoint close to the position of...
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...
7415327 Computerised flight manual and method for dynamic control of such a flight manual  
Method for dynamic control of the performance of an aircraft computed on the basis of a real aircraft data input file and a computation data input file, using a computerised flight manual running...
7415328 Hybrid model based fault detection and isolation system  
Method for detecting faults in a device comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of performance parameters, applying the plurality of performance parameters to a first model to produce a...
7403843 Systems and methods for automated deselection of flight plan information from a display  
Systems and methods for automatically switching to a track view mode on a vertical view display. The system determines aircraft position relative to a leg of a flight plan and switches display mode...
7398182 Method and device for detecting degradation of performance of an aircraft  
An aircraft performance degradation detection system may include information sources, a central unit connected to the information sources, and a warning device that is connected to the central...
7392486 Method and apparatus for automatic display and removal of required synoptic pages in a checklist context  
The completion of an electronic checklist is facilitated by the automated display of certain data while completing the checklist. The disclosed program presents an automated display of synoptic,...
7389163 Procedure to minimize the risk of air collision for personal mid-air vehicles  
A method of and a system for controlling personal air vehicle (PAV) traffic provides a take-off-and-landing zone, and a forward flight zone. The take-off-and-landing zone may be from the ground up...
7389164 Systems and methods for automatic detection of QFE operations  
Systems and methods for determining if an aircraft is approaching a atmospheric pressure at field elevation (QFE) airport and for alerting if any errors that might affect the production of an...
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...
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...
7382283 Method and device for detecting an overstepping of design loads of the tailplane of an aircraft  
Detection of the overstepping of design loads of an aircraft tailplane may include determining current bending and twisting moments applied to the aircraft. The determined bending and twisting...
7383104 Low-noise flight support system  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system that is used to provide support so that a pilot can perform flight operations that reduce noise pollution, by devising this system so...
7383124 ADS-B broadcast monitoring system and method  
A vehicle having a first transponder circuit generating an over-the-air transmission signal and a reference signal is disclosed. The vehicle also has a receiver circuit that receives the...
7379796 Low-altitude flight guidance system, warning system for low-altitude flight guidance, warning generator for low-altitude flight guidance and method for low-altitude flight guidance  
A low-altitude flight guidance system for an aircraft including a warning generator that generates a warning based upon a predicted position. The system further including a first sensor system...
7369845 Managing features available on a portable communication device based on a travel speed detected by the portable communication device  
A portable communication device detects a current speed of travel of the portable communication device independent of any vehicle temporarily transporting the portable communication device. A speed...
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...
7356474 System and method for remotely enforcing operational protocols  
A system and method for remotely enforcing operational protocols is provided. In a remote environment, such as that found with a police environment, voice recognition technology is used to...
7346437 Secure interactive 3d navigation method and device  
A safe interactive navigation apparatus and method allows the crew of an aircraft to prepare and follow a safe flight plan without relying on instrument flying infrastructure. An aircraft...
7337045 Airborne windshear detection and warning system  
An airborne windshear detection and warning system includes a pitot tube for detecting the airspeed of an aircraft and an angle of attack vane for detecting an aircraft's angle of attack. Signals...
7334939 Method and device for verifying a temperature value at a destination altitude of an aircraft  
The device comprises a means for measuring a dynamic temperature on the outside of the aircraft, a means for determining a static temperature around the aircraft, using said dynamic temperature, a...
7333030 Method and system for preventing an aircraft from penetrating into a dangerous trailing vortex area of a vortex generator  
The invention relates to methods and devices for aircraft's safe operation and is embodied in the form of a method and system for informing a user, for example an aircraft crew and/or a flight...
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...
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,...
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...
7289890 Checklist system  
A system is provided which provides an indication of checklist items, for example, in an aircraft. The system monitors aircraft systems and automatically prioritizes information gathered from those...
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