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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2000
James Nicholls, Glendale, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides an alternative means of displaying aircraft flight information traditionally provided by a standalone rate of turn indicator on the aircraft instrumentation panel. The bank angle effective to achieve a rate of turn equal to a desired rate of turn for an aircraft is displayed to the pilot by generating and displaying one or more bank angle markers on the roll scale of an aircraft attitude indicator. The position of the desired rate of turn bank angle markers may be updated continuously as a function of airspeed and other flight parameters. The present invention enables a pilot to perform a coordinated turn at a desired rate of turn without having to reference a separate rate of turn indicator on the instrumentation panel and/or without having to independently calculate the associated bank angle according to any known “rule of thumb” or other estimation method.