System, device, and method for presenting instrument approach procedure advisory information to a pilot on an aircraft

摘要

A present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method for presenting instrument approach procedure (“IAP”) advisory information to a pilot of an aircraft are disclosed. An advisory generator (“AG”) is programmed to retrieve or receive flight information representative of the current position of the aircraft, a designated airport, and at least one published IAP; weather minima data corresponding to each IAP; and one or more IAP suitability factors from a weather data source, a NOTAM data source, and/or an aircraft performance data source. The AG determines the suitability or availability of each published IAP, disables the pilot's selectability of each unsuitable or unavailable published IAP, and generates advisory data representative of information advising the pilot of the unsuitable or unavailable published IAP(s). Additionally, the AG is programmed to receive a pilot's override of an unsuitable or unavailable published IAP and enable the overridden unsuitable or unavailable IAP.

主权项

1. A system for presenting instrument approach procedure (“IAP”) advisory information to a pilot of an aircraft, such system comprising:
at least one source of aircraft flight information data; a source of chart-published weather minima data; at least one source of at least one IAP suitability factor; an advisory generator configured to
retrieve first data representative of flight information comprised of at least
the current position of the aircraft,a designated airport, andat least one published IAP at the designated airport,generate identification data representative of the identification of each retrieved published IAP,provide the identification data to an aircraft presentation system,retrieve second data representative of chart-published weather minima data of each retrieved published IAP of the first data,receive third data representative of at least one IAP suitability factor,determine the suitability or availability of each retrieved published IAP as a function of the second data and the third data,disable the selectability of each unsuitable or unavailable retrieved published IAP,generate advisory data corresponding to each unsuitable or unavailable retrieved published IAP, where
the advisory data is representative of advisory information for each unsuitable or unavailable retrieved published IAP and comprised of a visual advisory, an aural advisory, or both, andprovide the advisory data to the aircraft presentation system; and the aircraft presentation system configured to
receive the identification data, andreceive the advisory data, whereby
the information represented in the identification data is presented on the screen of a display unit, andthe advisory information represented in the advisory data is presented on the screen of the display unit, through an aural alerting unit, or both.