Honeywell International Inc.

Arivazhagan V

Prashanth Thirumalaivenjamur

Raghu Shamasundar

Umesh Hosamani

Akshay Sankeshwari

Abdur Rab

Sujith Kumar

An obstruction detection and warning system includes a plurality of edge light emitters, and a processing system. The edge light emitters are mounted on a structure that has a width and a height. Each edge light emitter is operable to emit a light beam at an angular rate, and that is encoded with data that indicates its position and its height. The processing system receives the light beam emitted from each edge light emitter and decodes the encoded data from the received light beam to determine the width and height of the structure, and to determine a distance from an aircraft to the structure. The processor also compares an active trajectory and current altitude of the aircraft to the width and height of the structure and the distance to the structure and, based on the comparison, generates and supplies situational cues to an operator of the aircraft.

Obstruction detection and warning system and method

An adaptive system in an aircraft for presenting speed and altitude recommendations for supersonic flight on an aircraft display unit is provided. The system is configured to: predict, based on received aircraft sensor inputs from on board aircraft sensors, an optimum speed and altitude profile while flying in a supersonic phase of flight between a plurality of waypoints for the current aircraft model, wind conditions, and mission; and determine using a SONIC boom prediction model whether the optimum speed and altitude profile would cause an acceptable BOOM effect per a predefined BOOM effect threshold limit during flight between the plurality of waypoints, wherein a BOOM effect is a perceived sound level on land due to unrestricted supersonic flight over land, and wherein a BOOM effect threshold limit is an acceptable perceived sound level on land due to supersonic flight over land.

Adaptive system and method for presenting speed and altitude recommendations for supersonic flight

A method is provided. The method comprises: identifying a vehicle; providing, to a remote processing system, an interval between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle; providing, to the remote processing system, the preceding vehicle identifier; obtaining, on the remote processing system, a location and a direction of the vehicle; obtaining, on the remote processing system, a location and a direction of the preceding vehicle; determining, on the remote processing system, a speed of the vehicle necessary to maintain the interval; and providing, to the vehicle from the remote processing system, the speed of vehicle necessary to maintain the interval.

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