US 10,854,092 B1 · Method and system to improve the situational awareness of all aerodrome ground operations including all turnaround airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) milestones in the cockpit

Abstract

A method and system for time-based viewing to coordinate airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) events between a pilot and ground personnel on a cockpit display of an aircraft of generating a time scale with a list of A-CDM events of the aircraft during inbound, turnaround and outbound flight operations to an airport based sensor data contributed by aircraft systems and data of A-CDM event related to airport operations to generate a current time moving window in the time scale for identifying A-CDM events; generating a graphic user interface using the sensor data for positioning the current time moving window on the time scale; and collaboratively communicating with ground personnel decisions based on an aircraft state and a current A-CDM event identified by the positioning of the current time moving window in the time scale to expedite completion of a particular A-CDM event.

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A method for time-based viewing to coordinate airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) events between a pilot and ground personnel on an interface configurable for display on multiple types of cockpit displays of an aircraft, the method comprising:

generating, using a computing device that has at least one processor programmed to implement an application hosted by the computing device, a time scale with a list of A-CDM events of the aircraft during inbound, turnaround and outbound flight operations to an airport based on a first component of sensor data contributed by aircraft systems and based on a second component of data of A-CDM event related to airport operations wherein the first and second components are used to generate a current time moving window in the time scale for identifying one or more A-CDM events;
receiving sensor data to the at least one processor from at least one sensor system deployed on the aircraft;
associating a memory to the at least one processor for storing the list of A-CDM events related to the airport operations;
executing, by the at least one processor, the application to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) using the sensor data for positioning the current time moving window on the time scale for display on a cockpit display;
and
collaboratively communicating, by communication devices coupled to the at least one processor with ground personnel, decisions based on an aircraft state and a current A-CDM event identified by the positioning of the current time moving window in the time scale to expedite completion of a particular A-CDM event.

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A system for time-based viewing to coordinate airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) events between a pilot and ground personnel on an interface configurable for display on multiple types of cockpit displays of an aircraft, comprising:

a source of ground operation data at an airport;
a source for A-CDM events for generating a list of A-CDM events;
a source of aircraft state data;
a source of an active trajectory;
a display system configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a time scale configured with a moving time window displaying one or more A-CDM events from a list of A-CDM events;
a control module operationally coupled to receive and process the source of ground operation data, the aircraft state data, the active trajectory, and the A-CDM events, and configured to command the display system to display the list of A-CDM events and to continuously update each A-CDM event in the list with current ground operation data related to operation of the aircraft;
and
a selector knob, responsive to input time interval selections by the pilot, for adjusting the time interval for viewing the one or more A-CDM events by increasing or decreasing the time interval displayed with the moving time window to enable viewing of current A-CDM event information for collaborative decision making communications between the pilot and ground personnel to expedite completion the A-CDM event viewed with the moving time window.

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receiving ground operation data at an airport;
receiving A-CDM event data for generating a list of A-CDM events;
receiving aircraft state data;
receiving active trajectory about the aircraft;
processing by a control module operationally coupled and configured for receiving the ground operation data, the aircraft state data, the active trajectory, and the A-CDM event data to display a time scale containing a list of A-CDM events in a cockpit display and to continuously update each A-CDM event in the time scale with current ground operation data related to operation of the aircraft;
generating a graphical user interface (GUI) to display the time scale configured with a moving time window presenting one or more A-CDM events from the list of A-CDM events in the cockpit display;
and
adjusting a time interval of the time scale by a selector knob for viewing the one or more A-CDM events by increasing or decreasing the time interval with the moving time window to identify a particular A-CDM event in the list for collaborative decision making communications between the pilot and ground personnel about the A-CDM event to expedite a set of task at least comprising:
completing, skipping or modifying the A-CDM event for enhance efficiency in the operation of the aircraft.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system to improve the situational awareness of all aerodrome ground operations including all turnaround airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) milestones in the cockpit

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Method and system to improve the situational awareness of all aerodrome ground operations including all turnaround airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) milestones in the cockpit

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