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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2011
Scott R. Gremmert, Redmond, WA (US);
Timothy Crawford, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott R. Gremmert, Redmond, WA (US);
Timothy Crawford, Redmond, WA (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for alerting a flight crew when the vertical situation display may be providing incomplete information due to the presence of a non-computed trajectory segment in the flight plan. A processing device in signal communication with a flight management system, a position measuring system, and a velocity measuring system receives a flight plan from the flight management system and determines if the flight plan includes any non-computed trajectory segments. If at least one of time or distance to the beginning of a next non-computed trajectory segment is less than a threshold value, the processing device generates an alert that information displayed on a vertical situation display may be incomplete. An output device outputs the generated alert.