Closed airport surface alerting system

摘要

A system and a method alerts the occupant of an aircraft (502) that the aircraft (502) is in, or approaching, a zone of awareness associated with a closed surface at the airport.
In particular, the invention concerns a system and method of reducing unintentional incursions of an aircraft (502) 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 (502);
€¢ calculating a distance between the current position of the aircraft (502) and the reference point; and
€¢ generating and issuing an alert in response to the current position of the aircraft (502) corresponding to the position of the reference point.