Parking guidance system for aircraft
First Claim
1. A system for guiding a pilot taxiing an aircraft, having a plurality of wheels, on the ground in such a way that the pilot is enabled to stop the aircraft with satisfactory accuracy at a predetermined stopping point in a parking place, said system comprising a transmitter unit disposed in the region of the parking place and having a plurality of transmitter elements disposed on the surface of the ground successively following each other in a line at spaced locations in the direction of travel of the aircraft as the aircraft approaches the stopping point to cause a selected one of the plurality of wheels to roll successively over the transmitter elements as the aircraft approaches the stopping point;
- and an information unit operatively connected to the transmitter unit to provide, in response to the passage of said one wheel over successive ones of the transmitter elements toward the stopping point, a continuous quantitative indication of the remaining distance between the one of said spaced locations over which said one wheel is rolling and the stopping point.
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Abstract
A guidance system for use by a pilot in parking an aircraft on a parking place at an air terminal building and in stopping the aircraft at an exactly predetermined stopping point in the parking place. The system includes a transmitter unit having a plurality of transmitter elements disposed on the ground in the region of the parking place and successively following upon each other in the direction of travel of the aircraft. When the nose wheel of the aircraft successively passes over the transmitter elements these elements activate an information unit preferably mounted on the air terminal building within the pilot'"'"'s field of vision. The information unit includes indicator elements which continuously inform the pilot of the length of the distance up to the stopping point and when this stopping point is reached.
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1. A system for guiding a pilot taxiing an aircraft, having a plurality of wheels, on the ground in such a way that the pilot is enabled to stop the aircraft with satisfactory accuracy at a predetermined stopping point in a parking place, said system comprising a transmitter unit disposed in the region of the parking place and having a plurality of transmitter elements disposed on the surface of the ground successively following each other in a line at spaced locations in the direction of travel of the aircraft as the aircraft approaches the stopping point to cause a selected one of the plurality of wheels to roll successively over the transmitter elements as the aircraft approaches the stopping point;
- and an information unit operatively connected to the transmitter unit to provide, in response to the passage of said one wheel over successive ones of the transmitter elements toward the stopping point, a continuous quantitative indication of the remaining distance between the one of said spaced locations over which said one wheel is rolling and the stopping point.
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