Methods and systems for mitigating clearance ambiguities

A method comprising:

• receiving a first clearance communication from a first aircraft at a second aircraft, the second aircraft transmitting a second clearance communication;
• obtaining the second clearance communication associated with the second aircraft;
• identifying a first conversational context associated with the first clearance communication;
• identifying a second conversational context associated with the second clearance communication;
• identifying a discrepancy between the first clearance communication and the second clearance communication based at least in part on the first conversational context and the second conversational context by identifying one of the first aircraft and the second aircraft responding to an instruction for the other of the first aircraft and the second aircraft when the first conversational context matches the second conversational context;
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• in response to identifying the discrepancy, generating a user notification at one of the first aircraft and the second aircraft.

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a first aircraft, a first clearance communication associated with a second aircraft different from the first aircraft;
• obtaining, at the first aircraft, a second clearance communication associated with the first aircraft;
• determining the first clearance communication and the second clearance communication are successive in a sequence of communications based at least in part on a first timestamp associated with the first clearance communication and a second timestamp associated with the second clearance communication;
• determining the first clearance communication is related to the second clearance communication when the first conversational context matches the second conversational context after determining the first clearance communication and the second clearance communication are successive;
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• in response to determining the first clearance communication is related to the second clearance communication:
• comparing, at the first aircraft, one or more fields associated with the first clearance communication with the one or more fields associated with the second clearance communication to identify a discrepancy between a first value for a first field of the one or more fields associated with the first clearance communication and a second value for a second field of the one or more fields associated with the second clearance communication;
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• generating a user notification at the first aircraft in response to identifying the discrepancy.

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a first aircraft, a first clearance communication associated with a second aircraft different from the first aircraft;
• obtaining, at the first aircraft, a second clearance communication associated with the first aircraft;
• determining the first clearance communication is related to the second clearance communication when an operational parameter associated with the first clearance communication matches the operational parameter associated with the second clearance communication and a first conversational context associated with the first clearance communication matches a second conversational context associated with the second clearance communication;
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• in response to determining the first clearance communication is related to the second clearance communication:
• comparing, at the first aircraft, one or more fields associated with the first clearance communication with the one or more fields associated with the second clearance communication to identify a discrepancy comprising a difference between a first aircraft identifier for an aircraft identifier field associated with the first clearance communication and a second aircraft identifier for the aircraft identifier field associated with the second clearance communication;
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• generating a user notification at the first aircraft in response to identifying the discrepancy.

An aircraft system comprising:

• a communications system to obtain a plurality of clearance communications comprising a first clearance communication associated with an aircraft and a second clearance communication associated with an air traffic control system;
• a data storage element maintaining a table of entries corresponding to respective clearance communications of the plurality of clearance communications;
• a user interface;
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• a processing system coupled to the data storage element, the user interface and the communications system to assign a conversational context corresponding to each respective clearance communication of the plurality of clearance communications to each respective entry in the table of entries, identify a first conversational context associated with the first clearance communication, identify a second conversational context associated with the second clearance communication, identify a discrepancy between a first entry associated with the first clearance communication of the plurality of clearance communications and a second entry associated with the second clearance communication of the plurality of clearance communications based at least in part on the first conversational context assigned to the first entry and the second conversational context assigned to the second entry, and generate a user notification via the user interface in response to the discrepancy, wherein identifying the discrepancy comprises:
• determining the first clearance communication and the second clearance communication are related based on a relationship between the first conversational context and the second conversational context;
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• identifying the discrepancy between a first value of a parameter associated with the first clearance communication and a second value of the parameter associated with the second clearance communication.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processing system, cause the processing system to:

• obtain a first clearance communication associated with an aircraft;
• obtain a second clearance communication associated with an air traffic control system;
• identify a first conversational context associated with the first clearance communication;
• identify a second conversational context associated with the second clearance communication;
• identify a discrepancy between the first clearance communication and the second clearance communication based at least in part on the first conversational context and the second conversational context, wherein identifying the discrepancy comprises:
• determining the first clearance communication and the second clearance communication are related based on a relationship between the first conversational context and the second conversational context;
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• identifying the discrepancy between a first value of a parameter associated with the first clearance communication and a second value of the parameter associated with the second clearance communication;
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• in response to identifying the discrepancy, generate a user notification at one of the aircraft and the air traffic control system.