发明名称 TAWS with alert suppression
摘要 An aircraft terrain awareness warning system is disclosed that includes an interface for entering flight plan details of an aircraft including at least one waypoint. The terrain awareness warning system is configured such that potential-terrain-collision alerts are suppressed in the aircraft during landing operations performed at waypoints associated with landing zones.
申请公布号 US8890718(B2) 申请公布日期 2014.11.18
申请号 US201113083115 申请日期 2011.04.08
申请人 Sandel Avionics, Inc. 发明人 Block Gerald J.
分类号 G08G5/00;G08G5/02;G08G5/04 主分类号 G08G5/00
代理机构 Mayer & Williams PC 代理人 Wieczorek Mark D.;Mayer & Williams PC
主权项 1. An aircraft terrain awareness warning system, comprising: a. a database comprising recognized waypoints and user-entered waypoints, each of the recognized user-entered waypoints representing a geographical area, at least one of the recognized waypoints including a recognized landing zone associated with a unique landing-zone identifier at least one of the user-entered waypoints not included in the recognized waypoints and including a recognized landing zone associated with a unique landing-zone identifier, and b. an interface for entering flight plan details of an aircraft including at least one user-entered waypoint that is not a recognized waypoint, the at least one user-entered waypoint having an identifier including a textual code that indicates the nature of the waypoint, wherein the terrain awareness system is configured to parse the user-entered waypoints for identifiers to determine if one or more entered waypoints includes an identifier indicating a landing zone, such that alerts are suppressed in the terrain awareness system during a landing operation thereof performed at the entered waypoint having an identifier associated with a landing zone.
地址 Vista CA US
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