Ground operations and advanced runway awareness and advisory system
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1. An airport position situational awareness computer program residing on a computer usable storage medium, the computer program comprising:
- computer-readable program code means for receiving one or more signals representative of current aircraft position, orientation and ground speed information;
computer-readable program code means for accessing stored runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information;
computer-readable program code means for determining a current aircraft position relative to the runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information;
computer-readable program code means for receiving one or more communications broadcasts containing current position information of objects external to an aircraft receiving the one or more communications broadcasts;
computer-readable program code means for predicting a potential conflict between the aircraft receiving the one or more communications broadcasts and one or more of the external objects;
computer-readable program code means for determining a potential conflict condition advisory as a function of determining a potential conflict;
computer-readable program code means for determining a priority of the potential conflict condition advisory relative to other advisories and alerts; and
computer-readable program code means for generating the potential conflict condition advisory as a function of both determining the potential conflict and determining the priority of the potential conflict condition advisory relative to other advisories and alerts.
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Abstract
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 and another aircraft, and generating and annunciating conflict awareness advisories as a function of determining that a conflict exists.
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1. An airport position situational awareness computer program residing on a computer usable storage medium, the computer program comprising:
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computer-readable program code means for receiving one or more signals representative of current aircraft position, orientation and ground speed information;
computer-readable program code means for accessing stored runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information;
computer-readable program code means for determining a current aircraft position relative to the runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information;
computer-readable program code means for receiving one or more communications broadcasts containing current position information of objects external to an aircraft receiving the one or more communications broadcasts;
computer-readable program code means for predicting a potential conflict between the aircraft receiving the one or more communications broadcasts and one or more of the external objects;
computer-readable program code means for determining a potential conflict condition advisory as a function of determining a potential conflict;
computer-readable program code means for determining a priority of the potential conflict condition advisory relative to other advisories and alerts; and
computer-readable program code means for generating the potential conflict condition advisory as a function of both determining the potential conflict and determining the priority of the potential conflict condition advisory relative to other advisories and alerts. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A conflict awareness computer program product, comprising:
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a computer-usable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for configuring a computer processor, the computer program product comprising;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to receive at intervals one or more instrument signals reporting updated state parameter information of an installation aircraft;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to retrieve stored runway survey information as a function of the updated installation aircraft state parameter information;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to identify a runway as a function of the updated installation aircraft state parameter information and the runway survey information;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to determine that the installation aircraft has encountered the identified runway;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to determine an orientation of the installation aircraft relative to the identified runway as a function of the updated installation aircraft state parameter information and the runway survey information;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to generate a runway awareness advisory as a function of;
the updated installation aircraft state parameter information, and the orientation of the installation aircraft relative to the identified runway;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to determine that a different aircraft external to the installation aircraft is operating on the identified runway; and
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to generate a conflict awareness advisory as a function of;
determining that a different aircraft external to the installation aircraft is operating on the identified runway. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An airport conflict awareness apparatus, comprising:
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a searchable database of runway survey data;
a processor structured for receiving samples of one or more signals reporting position data of an installation aircraft, receiving samples of one or more signals reporting position data of an aircraft external to the installation aircraft, and for retrieving runway survey data from the database;
one or more algorithms executable by the processor for determining simultaneous operation of the installation aircraft and the external aircraft on a common runway as a function of the position data of the installation aircraft, the position data of the external aircraft, and the runway survey data; and
one or more algorithms executable by the processor for generating as a function of determining simultaneous operation of the installation aircraft and the external aircraft on a common runway a conflict awareness advisory. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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