Systems and methods for improving predicted path display output

摘要

Systems and methods for alerting a flight crew when the vertical situation display may be providing incomplete information due to the presence of a non-computed trajectory segment in the flight plan. A processing device in signal communication with a flight management system, a position measuring system, and a velocity measuring system receives a flight plan from the flight management system and determines if the flight plan includes any non-computed trajectory segments. If at least one of time or distance to the beginning of a next non-computed trajectory segment is less than a threshold value, the processing device generates an alert that information displayed on a vertical situation display may be incomplete. An output device outputs the generated alert.

主权项

1. A method performed by a processing device on an aircraft, the method comprising:
receiving a flight plan from a flight management system; determining if the flight plan includes any non-computed trajectory segments; receiving aircraft speed and position information; determining at least one of time or distance to the beginning of a next determined non-computed trajectory segment, based on the received aircraft speed and position information; and if at least one of the time or distance to the beginning of the next determined non-computed trajectory segment is less than a threshold value, generating an alert that information displayed on a vertical situation display may be incomplete.