Systems and methods for intelligently displaying aircraft traffic information

A system comprising

• a avionics system comprising one or more processors, memory coupled to the processors, and a top antenna and a bottom antenna electrically and communicatively coupled to the avionics system, further including:
• a Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) component,
• a flight deck display electrically and communicatively coupled to the TCAS component;
• and
• a prediction display management system coupled to the TCAS component and the flight deck display, the prediction display management system further comprising a predictive model component;
• wherein software stored within a memory of the avionics system is configured to execute the steps of:
• obtaining a plurality of recent aircraft track parameters pertaining to target aircraft external to and in vicinity of an ownship aircraft;
• preparing a sequence of predictions forecasting respective positions of each of the target aircraft track parameters at time samples uniformly-spaced across a predetermined time period;
• forecasting an ownship position and forecasting a position of each computed track with respect to the forecasted ownship position;
• determining whether each of the computed tracks may cross within a predetermined near-range threshold of ownship's forecast position;
• and
• visually highlighting, on a display, each of the computed tracks may cross within a predetermined range of ownship's forecast position.