Ground operations and imminent landing runway selection
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1. A runway selection 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 position, orientation and phase of flight information of an installation aircraft;
computer-readable program code means for accessing stored runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information; and
computer-readable program code means for selecting a runway as a function of the current aircraft position, orientation and phase of flight information and the runway survey information, including;
computer-readable program code means for determining a plurality of runways nearest the current position of the installation aircraft;
computer-readable program code means for constructing a runway envelope relative to each of the runways; and
computer-readable program code means for determining a presence of the aircraft within one of the runway envelopes by;
comparing at least the current aircraft position information with each of the runway envelopes, anddetermining coincidence of the position information with the runway envelope.
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Abstract
A method and system for locating aircraft with respect to airport runways selecting as a function of aircraft state parameters one of a plurality of candidate runways that the aircraft on which it is installed is most likely to encounter, whether taxiing, preparing for take-off, or approaching to land.
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1. A runway selection 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 position, orientation and phase of flight information of an installation aircraft; computer-readable program code means for accessing stored runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information; and computer-readable program code means for selecting a runway as a function of the current aircraft position, orientation and phase of flight information and the runway survey information, including; computer-readable program code means for determining a plurality of runways nearest the current position of the installation aircraft; computer-readable program code means for constructing a runway envelope relative to each of the runways; and computer-readable program code means for determining a presence of the aircraft within one of the runway envelopes by; comparing at least the current aircraft position information with each of the runway envelopes, and determining coincidence of the position information with the runway envelope. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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