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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
May. 14, 2018
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Robert Earl Worsham, II, Weatherford, TX (US);
Morganne Cody Klein, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Christopher M. Bothwell, Grapevine, TX (US);
Luke Dafydd Gillett, Grapevine, TX (US);
Jillian Samantha Alfred, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Sung Kyun Kim, Bedford, TX (US);
Stephanie Baynham, Tacoma Park, MD (US);
Troy Caudill, Burleson, TX (US);
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method of indicating flight modes of a rotorcraft includes: detecting a change in flight mode of the rotorcraft from a previous flight mode to an active flight mode, the active flight mode and the previous flight mode each being from one of a first subset or a second subset of a plurality of flight modes; determining whether the active flight mode and the previous flight mode are from different subsets of the plurality of flight modes; and updating one or more flight mode indicators on an instrument panel of the rotorcraft in response to the active flight mode and the previous flight mode being from different subsets of the plurality of flight modes.