公开(公告)号：US20180367211A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US15711559

申请日：2017-09-21

Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.

Inventor： Dennis David Loots ,  John Hillier ,  William Pewsey

IPC: H04B7/185 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/46

Abstract: Aircraft systems and related methods and devices are provided for supporting a standalone or external flight management system (FMS) line replaceable unit (LRU) using another LRU onboard the aircraft. In one embodiment, the hosting LRU includes a communications interface for coupling to a FMS LRU, a first card coupled to the communications interface and including shared memory communicatively coupled to a shared memory interface, and a flight guidance card communicatively coupled to one or more onboard systems to obtain operational data for the aircraft from the one or more onboard systems and provide the operational data to the first card via the shared memory interface, wherein the first card is configured to retransmit the operational data to the FMS LRU via the communications interface.