TAXIWAY AIRCRAFT LOCATION MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20110032124A1
• Filed: 08/10/2010
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John Baskin
• Original Assignee: John Baskin
• Inventors: Baskin, John
• Application Number:
  US12/853,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20110032124A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/961
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/065 Navigation or guidance aids, e.g. for taxiing or rolling

Abstract

A taxiway aircraft location monitoring system that includes an aircraft transceiver unit located in an aircraft designed to selectively communicate with the second transceiver unit located in the control tower and with other aircraft moving on the airport. Each transceiver unit is coupled to the aircraft'"'"'s global positioning system (GPS) used to determine the current location and altitude. During operation, the aircraft'"'"'s transceiver unit transmits the aircraft'"'"'s FAA assigned registration number and current location to a receiving unit located in the control tower and other transceiver units located in other aircrafts. The aircraft'"'"'s transceiver unit is coupled to a control switch that constantly monitors the aircraft'"'"'s current altitude its distance from the airport'"'"'s control tower so that the control switch automatically activates and deactivates the transmission of wireless signals from the aircraft'"'"'s transceiver unit when the aircraft is within or outside a predetermined altitude or distanced from the control tower. The transceiver units may be coupled to displays with maps showing all of the runways and taxiways at the airport and the current location of any aircraft moving on the ground.

Claims

1. A taxiway aircraft location monitoring system, comprising:

a. an airport with a control tower with monitoring stations location therein used to monitor and instruct outboard and inboard aircraft to said airport;

said monitoring station includes a display with a map showing the runways and taxiways at said airport;

b. an aircraft with an on-board GPS system used to determine the current location and altitude of said aircraft said aircraft being assigned a unique registration number;

c. an aircraft transceiver unit located inside said aircraft and coupled so said global positioning system, said transceiver unit to continuously transmit the aircraft'"'"'s location and to monitor the relative distance or elevation from said control tower;

d. a control tower transceiver unit located in said control tower designed to receive the wireless signals from said transceiver unit inside said aircraft when activated, said receiving unit being coupled to said display at said monitoring station so that all of the runways and taxiways at the airport and the current location of any aircraft moving on the ground;

e. a switch coupled to said aircraft transceiver unit used to activate and deactivate the transmission of wireless signals from said aircraft transceiver unit when the aircraft is within or outside of a predetermined altitude or distance from said control tower; and

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f. an alarm located in said aircraft to provide a warning when said aircraft is on a collision coarse with another aircraft when moving on the ground on said airport.