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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2000
Christopher John Shehi, Glendale, AZ (US);
Kara Maureen Thiede, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Mottistown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A new and useful apparatus for automatically correcting for the actual altitude of an aircraft, under non-ISA temperature conditions is provided. An apparatus according to the present invention can be particularly useful in automatically providing altitude correction output to a navigation and control system for an aircraft at selected points along an aircraft flight path where terrain clearance under non-ISA temperature conditions is an important operational parameter. An altitude correction device according to the invention is configured to provide altitude correction output with respect to a predetermined landing site as a function of the following formula to compute the aircraft's relation to the computed path relative to the predetermined landing site: