Systems and methods for suggesting, on an avionic display in an aircraft, a communication frequency that is relevant to a context of the aircraft. The method includes determining a location and orientation of the aircraft and referencing an intended flight path to determine, based thereon, the context of the aircraft. The method uses the context to reference an on-board source of a plurality of stored navigation communication frequencies. The method identifies one or more relevant navigation communication frequencies for the context and presents the relevant navigation communication frequencies in a predefined area on an avionic display.

Runway awareness and advisory systems (RAAS) and methods are provided for an aircraft. A variety of alerts can be provided based on integrating FMS data with the RAAS systems.

Methods, devices, and systems for aircraft taxi route generation are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a routing plan request for an aircraft, generate, in response to receiving the routing plan request, a taxi route for the aircraft through an airfield of an airport using a rule engine, and transmit the taxi route to the aircraft, and a user interface to display a map of the airfield and the taxi route on the map of the airfield.

Methods, devices, and systems for vehicle tracking are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a computing device comprising a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive tracking data for an vehicle at an airport, where the tracking data includes a data record including a number of data fields, determine whether the vehicle is being actively tracked using the tracking data, and generate a mapped data record using the tracking data to track the vehicle at the airport in response to the vehicle being actively tracked.

Devices, methods, and systems for adjusting aircraft ground movement routes are described herein. One device includes a user interface, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a touch selection of a portion of an aircraft ground movement route displayed in the map of the airfield and a touch drag of the selected portion of the route to a different intersection of the airfield displayed in the map, display, responsive to the selected portion of the route being touch dragged to the different intersection of the airfield, a zoomed-in view of the different intersection, receive a touch selection of a portion of the different intersection in the zoomed-in view, adjust the aircraft ground movement route according to the received touch selection of the portion of the different intersection, and display, in the map, the adjusted aircraft ground movement route.

A method of landing an aircraft in which the aircraft receives information from a second aircraft via a direct aircraft-to-aircraft communication from the second aircraft to the aircraft; determines a landing plan of the aircraft based on the information; and lands the aircraft based on the landing plan. The use of a direct aircraft-to-aircraft communication (i.e. a communication from the second aircraft to the first aircraft which does not travel via an intermediary such as a land station, air traffic controller or satellite) makes the method reliable because such a communication is inherently secure and difficult to hack.

A system may include a processor configured to: obtain an image of an airport terminal chart; based on a latitudinal set of characters, determine a latitude for each line of latitude; based on the latitude for each line of latitude and a first image distance between the lines of latitude, determine a first ratio of latitudinal degrees between the lines of latitude to the first image distance; based on a longitudinal set of characters, determine a longitude for each line of longitude; based on the longitude for each line of longitude and a second image distance between the lines of longitude, determine a second ratio of longitudinal degrees between the lines of longitude to the second image distance; and output information associated with the first ratio, the second ratio, the determined latitude for each line of latitude, and the determined longitude for each line of longitude.

Tracking aircraft in and near a ramp area is described herein. One method includes receiving camera image data of an aircraft while the aircraft is approaching or in the ramp area, receiving LIDAR/Radar sensor data of an aircraft while the aircraft is approaching or in the ramp area, merging the camera image data and the LIDAR/Radar sensor data into a merged data set, and wherein the merged data set includes at least one of: data for determining the position and orientation of the aircraft relative to the position and orientation of the ramp area, data for determining speed of the aircraft, data for determining direction of the aircraft, data for determining proximity of the aircraft to a particular object within the ramp area, and data for forming a three dimensional virtual model of at least a portion of the aircraft from the merged data.

In an aircraft comprising a cockpit comprising a display screen, a camera configured to acquire images of the environment of the aircraft, as well as a display management system, a ground rolling aid system configured so as to a) acquire several successive images of the environment of the aircraft via the camera, corresponding to various ground positions of the aircraft, b) modify these images by removing at least zones corresponding to the aircraft, so as to produce modified images, c) combine several of the modified images to produce a recomposed image, d) superpose an image characteristic of the aircraft on the recomposed image so as to produce a reference image, and e) display, on the cockpit display screen, an image corresponding to the reference image.

Airport gate visual docking guidance system digital twin methods, systems, and devices are described herein. One method includes: identifying that a device of the visual docking guidance system is non-responsive, determining which device is non-responsive, initiating start-up of one visual docking guidance system program selected from: a visual docking guidance system software program, a central computing system program, or an operating station program, selecting a digital twin data set corresponding to the device of the visual docking guidance system that was non-responsive, wherein the set includes parameter data that was customized by a user of the visual docking guidance system and is particular to the device of the visual docking guidance system that was non-responsive, and sending the digital twin parameter data to the device of the visual docking guidance system that was non-responsive to update one or more parameters stored in association with the visual docking guidance system program.