Astronautics Corporation of America

Jason Shuler

David Owczarski

Andrew Lindgren

Jeffrey Hering

Nicholas Holupchinski

Eugene Zobachev

Micah Fedke

Jonathan Schaaf

Stephen Chula

Peter Schotz

Matthew Hungerford

Ram Gupta

David Jones

Bernard Newman

Liya Chernyakova

John Lehsten

A method and apparatus for using portable electronic devices such as commercial off-the-shelf cell phones and tablets for the communication of critical aviation data provides a protocol which minimizes processing by the portable electronic device other than the confirmation of a receipt of uncorrupted data. Failure of timely, accurate communication is detected at a certified avionics data server and communicated to the portable electronic device in the form of a fail-image. The communicated images may be composited with animated frames to provide a human recognizable indication of data integrity.

System for communicating avionics information through portable electronic devices

An electronic flight bag providing computational services for an aircraft and communicating with aircraft avionics may execute aircraft-design-approved Type-C applications together with non-design-approved Type-A/B on a single processor through specific modifications of the operating system to control memory and processor access thereby providing isolation comparable to that of dual processor systems in which the Type-C applications and Type-A/B applications are executed on different processors.

Single processor class-3 electronic flight bag

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Menomonee Falls, WI, United States of America

Jason Shuler