Ground operations and imminent landing runway selection
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1. An airport position situational awareness computer program residing on a computer usable storage medium, comprising:
- means for receiving one or more signals representative of current aircraft position, orientation and ground speed information;
means for accessing stored runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information; and
means for indicating a current position of the current aircraft relative to selected runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position and orientation information, including;
means for generating a graphical depiction of the selected runway survey information for display on a cockpit display device; and
means for generating a plot the current aircraft position, orientation and ground speed information relative to the graphical depiction of the selected runway survey information for display on the cockpit display device.
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Abstract
A method, computer program product and apparatus for locating aircraft with respect to airport runways and environs, generating a graphical display of the aircraft position, heading and ground speed information relative to the aircraft runways and environs, and annunciating situational awareness advisories as a function of aircraft information relative to the airport runways and environs.
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1. An airport position situational awareness computer program residing on a computer usable storage medium, comprising:
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means for receiving one or more signals representative of current aircraft position, orientation and ground speed information; means for accessing stored runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position information; and means for indicating a current position of the current aircraft relative to selected runway survey information as a function of the current aircraft position and orientation information, including; means for generating a graphical depiction of the selected runway survey information for display on a cockpit display device; and means for generating a plot the current aircraft position, orientation and ground speed information relative to the graphical depiction of the selected runway survey information for display on the cockpit display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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