Aircraft communication frequency nomination

An aviation facility nominating device for an aircraft comprising;

• a position receiving component that receives position data indicating a position of the aircraft;
• an aviation data receiving component that receives aviation data and location data associated with a plurality of aviation facilities, wherein each aviation facility has a plurality of signals associated with it, each of the plurality of signals having a prescribed frequency;
• a facility selecting component for selecting aviation data for a selected plurality of the aviation facilities based on a distance from the aircraft to each of said selected aviation facilities;
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• a nominating component that nominates at least one but not all of the selected plurality of aviation facilities as a nominated aviation facility likely to be of interest to a pilot based on the distance from the aircraft to each of said selected aviation facilities, and that further nominates at least one but not all of the plurality of signals of each nominated aviation facility as a nominated signal likely to be of interest to the pilot.

An aviation signal nominating device comprising;

• a position receiving component that receives position data indicating a position of an aircraft;
• a status receiving component that receives an aircraft status indicating a phase of flight;
• an aviation signal receiving component that receives a plurality of aviation signals associated with an aviation facility, each aviation signal having a prescribed frequency;
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• a nominating component that nominates at least one but not all of the plurality of aviation signals as a nominated aviation signal likely to be of interest to a pilot based on the aircraft status and the position of the aircraft.

An aviation signal nominating device comprising;

• a position receiving component that receives position data indicating a position of an aircraft;
• an aviation signal receiving component that receives a plurality of aviation signals associated with an aviation facility, each aviation signal having a prescribed frequency;
• a radial receiving component that receives radial data indicating a current radial position of the aircraft relative to the aviation facility;
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• a nominating component that nominates at least one but not all of the plurality of aviation signals as a nominated aviation signal likely to be of interest to a pilot based on the position of the aircraft and the current radial position of the aircraft relative to the aviation signal, wherein the nominating component nominates only one of the plurality of aviation signals associated with the aviation facility.

An aviation signal nominating device comprising;

• a position receiving component that receives position data indicating a position of an aircraft;
• an aviation signal receiving component that receives a plurality of aviation signals associated with an aviation facility, each aviation signal having a prescribed frequency;
• a frequency communicating component for communicating a frequency value to another component;
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• a nominating component that nominates at least one but not all of the plurality of aviation signals as a nominated aviation signal likely to be of interest to a pilot based on the position of the aircraft, wherein the nominating component nominates the at least one of the plurality of aviation signals as a nominated aviation signal when the frequency of the aviation signal does not match the frequency value communicated to the other component.

An aviation signal nominating device comprising;

• a position receiving component that receives position data indicating a position of an aircraft;
• an aviation signal receiving component that receives a plurality of aviation signals associated with an aviation facility, each aviation signal having a prescribed frequency;
• a frequency display component for displaying a frequency value;
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• a nominating component that nominates at least one but not all of the plurality of aviation signals as a nominated aviation signal likely to be of interest to a pilot based on the position of the aircraft, wherein the nominating component nominates the at least one of the plurality of aviation signals as a nominated aviation signal only when the frequency of the aviation signal does not match the frequency value displayed by the frequency display.

An aviation signal frequency value nominating device comprising;

• a position receiving component that receives position data indicating a position of an aircraft;
• an aviation data receiving component that receives aviation data associated with a plurality of aviation facilities;
• wherein the aviation data for each of the plurality of aviation facilities includes an aviation signal having a prescribed frequency value;
• a nominating component that nominates one of the plurality of aviation facilities as a nominated aviation facility based on a position of the aircraft;
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• a display for displaying information corresponding to at least selected ones of the plurality of aviation facilities together with the frequency value of their associated aviation signal in addition to the frequency value of the nominated aviation facility.

An aviation signal frequency value nominating device comprising;

• a position receiving component that receives position data indicating a position of an aircraft;
• an aviation data receiving component that receives aviation data associated with a plurality of aviation facilities, wherein the aviation data for each of the plurality of aviation facilities includes a plurality of aviation signals, each of the plurality of aviation signals having a prescribed frequency value;
• a nominating component that nominates one of the plurality of aviation facilities as a nominated aviation facility based on a position of the aircraft wherein the nominating component nominates one of the plurality of aviation signals associated with the nominated aviation facility as a nominated aviation signal likely to be of interest to a pilot;
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• a display for displaying the frequency value of the nominated aviation signal.