About 14 results
https://drivepatents.com/patents/977462 · 12 Mar 2014
A method (100) of determining a turbulent condition in an aircraft (10) with a handheld device where the handheld device has at least one of a gyroscope, seismometer, and an accelerometer (42) where the method includes receiving (102) an output from the at...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/977731 · 5 Mar 2014
Methods for determining suitable locations for placement of one or more flight plan (52) waypoints (54) for an aircraft within a volume of space (50). Such methods may include reducing the volume of space to be analyzed and analyzing the reduced volume (67...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/979160 · 29 Jan 2014
A method for selecting and displaying a flight path (46) for an aircraft (10) on a display of a flight deck (18) of the aircraft (10) that allows a user to input a selected flight path on a map displayed on the display. A final flight path will be displaye...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/979159 · 29 Jan 2014
A method for illustrating an aircraft flight plan comprising at least one waypoint (42) on a flight display (22) of a flight deck (18) of an aircraft (10), where the method may include displaying on the flight display of the flight deck some type of displa...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/986929 · 11 Sep 2013
An apparatus for powering an aircraft by generating power from a pressure spool (26,28) of a turbine engine (10) includes a speed range reduction assembly (74,740) that reduces the higher speed ranges of a low pressure spool (28) to lower speed ranges with...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/987464 · 14 Aug 2013
A method of providing maintenance to an aircraft having multiple aircraft systems and a method of operating an aircraft having multiple aircraft systems, with at least some of the aircraft systems outputting one or more visual indicia indicative of a statu...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/990982 · 8 May 2013
A relative navigation system projects a grid (20,30) into space from a grid generator (10) and an object, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (18), may use the projected grid (20,30) to aid in the landing of the object. Methods of adjusting the projected gr...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/996095 · 14 Nov 2012
An aircraft management system is used in displaying a primary flight display screen (100). The primary flight display screen has a predetermined height (H) and includes a horizontal situation indicator (HSI) (102). The aircraft management system includes a...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1000608 · 11 Jul 2012
An airport feature data interchange method provides bandwidth reduction in airport feature data interchange in an aircraft by: obtaining (61) the absolute coordinates of an airport reference location (e.g. an airport monument); obtaining (62) the absolute ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1000450 · 11 Jul 2012
A flight management system (24) for use in automatically generating a flight path trajectory (26) for an aircraft (10) is provided. The flight path trajectory including a plurality of waypoints (28) and a plurality of vectors (30) extending between each wa...