Systems and methods for guiding a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle to an emergency landing zone

A system for providing guidance to an emergency landing zone in a vertical takeoff and landing, VTOL, vehicle, the system comprising:

• a display device;
• a sensor system configured to provide location data for a location of the VTOL vehicle;
• at least one processor in operable communication with the sensor system and the display device and configured to execute program instructions, wherein the program instructions are configured to cause the at least one processor to:
• determine candidate landing zone data by interrogating an emergency landing zone database based at least on the location data for the VTOL vehicle, the candidate landing zone data representing a list of candidate emergency landing zones;
• select a target emergency landing zone from the list of candidate emergency landing zones based at least on VTOL vehicle related issues including at least one of unanticipated yaw issues, ground effect issues and modified trend vector issues, thereby providing target emergency landing zone data;
• and
• determine guidance for the VTOL vehicle based on the target emergency landing zone data including generating a display to be displayed by the display device that graphically identifies the target emergency landing zone and a location thereof.