AVIATION, TERRAIN AND WEATHER DISPLAY SYSTEM

摘要

A computer system (10) for displaying on a display device (30) terrain, weather and aviation information and including memory devices (16, 18, 20) which contain a terrain database, aviation map database, weather database, air traffic database, airplane specific database and route database. A processor (12) is coupled to the memory devices (16, 18, 20) and configured to determine a position and heading of an airplane over the terrain based on the route database, to compute terrain information, aviation map information, air traffic information and weather information relative to the airplane and to compute and display on the display device (30) flight parameters associated with the airplane using the airplane specific database. Advantages of the invention include the ability to supply a pilot with information that he can use to visualize his flight and approach to the destination airport.