Abstract:
A visual display system is provided for a vehicle having a windshield. The system includes a controller configured to receive information associated with an operating environment of the vehicle and to generate display commands representing the operating environment; a first operator tracking unit configured to collect data associated with a primary vision field of view of an operator; and a first display system coupled to the controller and configured to receive the display commands. The first display system includes a first display unit configured to display at least a portion of a border representing a boundary of the primary vision field of view of the operator and first symbology representing the operating environment of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A system and method is provided that displays graphical symbology that enables a pilot to rapidly discern (1) that a neighboring aircraft is a rotorcraft, and (2) whether the rotorcraft is hovering. The provided system and method enables a user to define hovering, by editing a position change (distance) within a predetermined time.
Abstract:
A display system and method are provided for displaying a plurality of vehicles, including receiving information via a data link unit from a controlling agency, the information including a vehicle manufacturer, a vehicle model, a vehicle owner, a vehicle position, and a vehicle category. The plurality of vehicles is displayed and one of the vehicles associated with the information is emphasized on the display. Furthermore, one or more of the images resembling the vehicle and resembling the airline logo may be displayed.
Abstract:
Presented herein is a system and method for graphically displaying intruder aircraft symbology on an avionics display system onboard a host aircraft. The method comprises receiving data from the intruder aircraft, determining the reference altitude of the intruder aircraft, displaying intruder symbology on the display, and generating symbology on the display to visually distinguish the intruder symbology when the barosetting of the intruder is not substantially equal to the barosetting of the host aircraft.
Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle such as an aircraft using a virtual cursor. One method involves identifying a displayed location of an active cursor overlying a first navigational map graphical user interface (GUI) display, determining a geographic reference point on the first navigational map GUI corresponding to the displayed location of the active cursor, determining a location for a virtual cursor to be displayed on a second navigational map GUI display corresponding to the geographic reference point on the first navigational map GUI display and concurrently displaying the virtual cursor at the determined location overlying the second navigational map.
Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle such as an aircraft using a virtual cursor. One method involves identifying a displayed location of an active cursor overlying a first navigational map graphical user interface (GUI) display, determining a geographic reference point on the first navigational map GUI corresponding to the displayed location of the active cursor, determining a location for a virtual cursor to be displayed on a second navigational map GUI display corresponding to the geographic reference point on the first navigational map GUI display and concurrently displaying the virtual cursor at the determined location overlying the second navigational map.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for presenting an RTA waypoint with associated time constraints. The system includes a flight management system (FMS) providing an assigned flight plan with a plurality of waypoints; a display device configured to render a current location and trajectory of the aircraft in a navigation display and in a vertical display; and a controller circuit. The system locates the RTA waypoint among the plurality of waypoints, as a function of the flight plan and the current location and trajectory of the aircraft. The system identifies a time constraint associated with the RTA waypoint. The system uses the time constraint to determine a type, from among an “at”, a “before”, and an “after”, for the RTA waypoint; and, assigns a preprogrammed visual encoding scheme for the type to the RTA waypoint. The system presents the RTA waypoint, using the visual encoding scheme, on the display device.
Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for prompting a pilot of an aircraft of reporting waypoint tasks. The method comprises retrieving compulsory reporting waypoints that are located along a stored planned flightpath for the aircraft. Pre-defined waypoint tasks are also retrieved for each compulsory reporting waypoint. The location of the aircraft is tracked along the planned flightpath and an alert for the pilot as the aircraft reaches each compulsory reporting waypoint. The alert prompts the pilot of the waypoint tasks by displaying the alert on a visual display device located on-board the aircraft.
Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for prompting a pilot of an aircraft of reporting waypoint tasks. The method comprises retrieving compulsory reporting waypoints that are located along a stored planned flightpath for the aircraft. Pre-defined waypoint tasks are also retrieved for each compulsory reporting waypoint. The location of the aircraft is tracked along the planned flightpath and an alert for the pilot as the aircraft reaches each compulsory reporting waypoint. The alert prompts the pilot of the waypoint tasks by displaying the alert on a visual display device located on-board the aircraft.
Abstract:
A flight display system or method in accordance with this disclosure involves the presentation, on an aircraft, of a “quick preview” notice to airmen (“NOTAM”) display that includes a plurality of stacked flight route portion boxes, each of the plurality of flight route portion boxes pertaining to and being labeled as one of: a departure taxiing portion, a standard instrument departure portion, an en route portion, a standard terminal arrival route portion, an approach portion, and an arrival taxiing portion; each of the plurality of flight route portion boxes graphically displaying flight route symbology pertaining to and labeled as each airport taxiing reference point and/or each aeronautical waypoint that falls within its labeled flight route portion; and wherein at least one of the plurality of flight route portion boxes further graphically displays NOTAM symbology pertaining to at least one of the NOTAMs that are relevant to the flight route.