Automatic detecting system for events such as aircraft takeoff/landing
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1. A method and a device for use by a civil airline company, separate from an air traffic control system used by an air traffic control facility, for automatically and accurately calculating in realtime the occurrence of events that are extremely important for a civil airline company, such as TAKEOFF, LANDING, GO-AROUND, DIVERT after entry into an approach area, REJECT-TAKEOFF, arrival at an arbitrarily set altitude, entry into HOLDING, and release from HOLDING in the vicinity of an airport, by intercepting the radio waves of an existing ATC mode S transponder when a company aircraft transmits the same in response to air controller interrogation waves (SSR), utilizing the data comprised therein, and systematically inputting this data to a computer comprising a simplified condition-setting function, which allows detection conditions to be set simply by selecting related parameter values from a list for each event to be detected, so as to facilitate adaptation to the specific operations of each airport and airline company.
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A system is directed at automatically detecting events that are extremely important for a civil airline, and which have conventionally been grasped by means of radio intercepts by experts in air traffic control, such as TAKEOFF, LANDING, GO-AROUND, DIVERT after entry into an approach area, REJECT-TAKEOFF, arrival at an arbitrarily set altitude, entry into HOLDING, and release from HOLDING of civil aircraft; for a data source, response waves from a conventional ATC mode S transponder are received when these are transmitted by aircraft for the purpose of receiving air control, and data comprised therein is extracted and used; a computer comprises a simplified initialization function, allowing detection conditions to be set simply by selecting related parameter values from a list for each event to be detected, so as to readily adapt to the specific operations of each airport and airline company.
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1. A method and a device for use by a civil airline company, separate from an air traffic control system used by an air traffic control facility, for automatically and accurately calculating in realtime the occurrence of events that are extremely important for a civil airline company, such as TAKEOFF, LANDING, GO-AROUND, DIVERT after entry into an approach area, REJECT-TAKEOFF, arrival at an arbitrarily set altitude, entry into HOLDING, and release from HOLDING in the vicinity of an airport, by intercepting the radio waves of an existing ATC mode S transponder when a company aircraft transmits the same in response to air controller interrogation waves (SSR), utilizing the data comprised therein, and systematically inputting this data to a computer comprising a simplified condition-setting function, which allows detection conditions to be set simply by selecting related parameter values from a list for each event to be detected, so as to facilitate adaptation to the specific operations of each airport and airline company.
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