A traffic information display format, situated in a craft, for observing traffic in a volume about the craft, having one or more viewing grids that display traffic on the display in a three-dimensional perspective so that the observer of the display can conceptually and immediately perceive the traffic entities and their statuses, distances, altitudes, ascending rates, descending rates, closing rates, receding rates and other information. The formats are generated by situation and symbol computers and provided to a stroke or flat panel display. The computers follow a system flow design that results in symbol and format generation for a display.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/649,118, filed Jan. 28, 1991, now abandoned, which was a continuation in part of application Ser. No. 374,420, filed Jun. 30, 1989, and now abandoned.
A traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) for use in a first aircraft is disclosed. The TCAS includes TCAS circuitry providing output data as a function of a location of an intruder aircraft relative to a location of the first aircraft. A display device coupled to the TCAS circuitry receives the output data. The display device is adapted to provide a graphical representation of the altitude of the intruder aircraft.
An aircraft N-number control system includes a receiver for receiving aircraft identification information signals representing alphanumeric characters corresponding to an aircraft. A microprocessor operating in accordance with stored programming instructions processes the received aircraft identification information signals into alphanumeric codes, determines whether there is a substantial similarity between the alphanumeric codes representing two aircraft and generates an output signal representing the alphanumeric codes only if there is no substantial similarity. The alphanumeric codes representing the aircraft are displayed on a air traffic controller's radar screen in response to the output signal.
A system and method for detecting and viewing aircraft hazardous incidents such as flying aircraft and meteorological phenomena which includes microbursts, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and the wake turbulence of aircraft. The aircraft hazardous incidents are positionally and horizontally displayed to the pilot on a display, that is located in the aircraft cockpit, in relation to the flight path of the aircraft. The timely displaying of any of the aircraft hazardous incidents permits the pilot to take evasive action to avoid a potentially dangerous incident.
A remote viewing system for simulating the views from a window includes a camera assembly and a remote viewing assembly. The camera assembly obtains views of a site and transmits the views to the remote viewing assembly. The viewing assembly then displays the views to simulate the various perspectives which can be obtained from looking out of a window, such as looking up and down out of the window.
An airborne obstacle collision avoidance apparatus which includes an object sensor for sensing objects within a field of view of the aircraft and an aircraft navigation system for navigating the aircraft through space. The apparatus also includes a signal processor for receiving data from both the object sensor and the aircraft navigation system, for generating map data of the objects within the field of view of the aircraft, for dynamically changing the map data as the aircraft moves through space and for determining the probability that the aircraft is on a collision course with respect to each sensed object. The apparatus further includes an alarm which is activated when the signal processor determines that there is a high probability that the current aircraft flight direction is on a collision course with respect to a sensed object.
