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Closed airport surface alerting system

  • US 8,145,367 B2
  • Filed: 06/02/2009
  • Issued: 03/27/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of reducing unintentional incursions of an aircraft into zones of awareness associated with surfaces at an airport, the method comprising:

  • retrieving a position of a reference point associated with a zone of awareness, the zone of awareness corresponding to a closed surface of the airport;

    determining a current position of the aircraft;

    calculating a distance between the current position of the aircraft and the reference point; and

    generating and issuing an alert in response to the current position of the aircraft corresponding to the position of the reference point.

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