Systems and methods for collecting weather information using an airborne aircraft
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorDonald C. Kauffman
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Abstract
Weather information recording systems and methods are operable to record information detected by airborne aircraft. An exemplary embodiment generates a trigger event corresponding to the presence of weather of interest, stores weather information collected by an aviation electronics system in a memory in response to generating the trigger event, and downloads the stored weather information to a remote memory.
Claims20
A method for recording weather information for weather encountered by an airborne aircraft, the method comprising:
- generating a trigger event corresponding to the presence of weather of interest having at least one characteristic greater than a threshold;
- storing weather information collected by an aviation electronics system in a memory in response to generating the trigger event;
- and
- downloading the stored weather information to a remote memory.
A weather information collecting system on an aircraft, comprising:
- at least one weather sensor;
- a processing system communicatively coupled to the at least one weather sensor, the processing system configured to determine weather information based upon weather detected by the weather sensor;
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- an onboard memory that stores the determined weather information in response to a trigger event generated in response to the weather information exceeding a predefined threshold.
A weather information collecting system on an aircraft, comprising:
- means for generating a trigger event corresponding to the presence of weather of interest;
- and
- means for storing weather information collected by an aviation electronics system in a memory in response to receiving the trigger event;
- and
- means for downloading the stored weather information to a remote memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.