Abstract:
An aircraft navigation system and a method for aircraft navigation is presented. The aircraft navigation system comprising: a navigation-map data source (101), navigation-map data provided by the navigation-map data source (101) including information about a multitude of objects O on earth surface which are of high potential visibility and high potential identiftability from elevated positions, each information for an object O € O including a position and a type of the respective object O; a first system (102) for measuring an actual aircraft position P(t); a waypoint data source (103) providing waypoints WP i , defining an aircraft intended flight track; a second system (104) for selecting per waypoint WP i , one object O i (WP i ) with O i (WP i ) € O depending on given selection criteria; and a display (105) for displaying an information l(O i (WP i ) referring the selected object O i (WP i ).