Avionics system adapted for employing smartphone to input-output flight data
AssigneeBell Helicopter Textron Inc.
InventorsWilliam D. Girard, Brian E. Tucker
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Abstract
A system and method configured to monitor aircraft flight performance data. The system includes a wireless transmitter in data communication with an avionics system of the aircraft, a portable wireless transceiver associated with the wireless transmitter, and a wireless database associated with the wireless transmitter. The method includes sensing flight performance data with the sensor, transmitting sensed flight performance data to the wireless transmitter, wirelessly transmitting the sensed flight performance data to the wireless database, and monitoring flight performance data with a display operably associated with the wireless database.
Claims20
An aircraft, comprising:
- a sensor;
- an avionics system associated with the sensor;
- a wireless transmitter in data communication with the avionics system;
- wherein the avionics system is configured to monitor aircraft flight performance data from the sensor;
- and
- wherein the wireless transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit aircraft flight performance data to the wireless database.
An aircraft flight performance monitoring system, comprising:
- a wireless transmitter in data communication with an avionics system of the aircraft;
- a portable wireless transceiver associated with the wireless transmitter;
- and
- a wireless database associated with the wireless transmitter;
- wherein the wireless transmitter is configured to receive and transmit flight performance data from the avionics system to the portable wireless transceiver, which in turn is transmitted to the wireless database.
A method to monitor aircraft flight performance data, comprising:
- sensing flight performance data with a sensor;
- transmitting sensed flight performance data to a wireless transmitter;
- wirelessly transmitting the sensed flight performance data to a wireless database;
- and
- monitoring flight performance data with a display operably associated with the wireless database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.