Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Evie R Johnson

Douglas M McCormick

Benjamin M Helppi

Jason A Myren

Christina M Martinez

Joseph J Trapani

An aircraft system may include a civil radio, a mission radio, and an adaptive flight display. The adaptive flight display may include a display, a processor, and memory. The memory may maintain a civil radio tuning system application and a mission radio tuning system application. The civil radio tuning system application and the mission radio tuning system application may be associated with the civil radio and the mission radio, respectively. The processor may be configured to: execute the civil radio tuning system application and the mission radio tuning system application; tune the civil and mission radios; generate a graphical user interface multifunction window including slots; assign slots to display information associated with the civil and mission radio tuning system applications; and output, to the display, the graphical user interface multifunction window having particular slots filled with the information associated with the civil and mission radio tuning system applications.

Adaptive flight display radio tuning system

A display interfacing system and an automated graphics system enable presentation of a second picture within a first picture of an avionics display. The first picture provides broad information pertaining to navigating an aircraft vehicle within a specified region. The broad information may include a flight plan map, and the specified region may be navigated using a VOR radial displayed on the flight plan map. The second picture provides clarifying information about an aspect of the first picture. Interaction with the second picture may also provide clarifying information about an aspect of the second picture.

Avionics picture-in-picture display

A system and related methods for digital map enabled search pattern generation by a flight management system retrieves from a digital map a set of pattern points corresponding to a selected search pattern parameter, such as a coastline, boundary, lateral terrain feature, or manmade structure, and a designated search area. The flight management system generates a sequence of waypoints based on the set of pattern points and a variable search radius, the sequence of waypoints optimizing efficient coverage of the search pattern parameter. The flight management system generates a full search pattern based on the generated sequence of waypoints; the generated search pattern may be approved or evaluated by the FMS, or forwarded to a rerouter for modification according to terrain avoidance factors.

Digital map enabled boundary search pattern

Methods and systems for integration of symbology and flight planning information in a flight management system are disclosed. A method may include: receiving a portion of a flight plan from an auxiliary flight management system; receiving graphical data for the portion of the flight plan from the auxiliary flight management system; integrating the portion of the flight plan received from the auxiliary flight management system into at least one additional portion of the flight plan managed by a primary flight management system to produce an integrated flight plan; and displaying the integrated flight plan to a user, wherein the portion of the flight plan received from the auxiliary flight management system is displayed at least partially based on the graphical data for the portion of the flight plan received from the auxiliary flight management system.

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Evie R Johnson