Systems and methods for providing improved situational awareness for an aircraft while taxiing. An exemplary method generates reflectivity data based on an associated emission at a transceiver located on an aircraft. At a processor, targets are determined if a portion of the generated reflectivity data is greater than a predefined threshold. Then, the analyzed targets are determined as to whether they are within a dynamically defined three-dimensional envelope. The envelope is based on wingtip light module speed and trajectory. On a display device, an indication of the nearest target is presented at the associated range to the nearest target.

The guiding method such as described correctly guides an aircraft on a platform of an airport, even in complex taxiing areas.

A display control device includes processing circuitry to estimate a second mobile object as a mobile object having an abnormal approach period out of a plurality of relevant mobile objects, to make a display device display a two-dimensional coordinate system formed by a first coordinate axis representing positions from a start point to an end point of a first predicted trajectory by distances and a second coordinate axis representing a time, a line indicating the first predicted trajectory, and an abnormal approach region indicating ranges of the position and the time of the second mobile object, and to make the display device display a display component, and upon receiving input information for moving the display component, to correct the first predicted trajectory so that the line indicating the first predicted trajectory does not overlap with the abnormal approach region.

A display control device includes processing circuitry to estimate a second mobile object as a mobile object having an abnormal approach period out of a plurality of relevant mobile objects, to make a display device display a two-dimensional coordinate system formed by a first coordinate axis representing positions from a start point to an end point of a first predicted trajectory by distances and a second coordinate axis representing a time, a line indicating the first predicted trajectory, and an abnormal approach region indicating ranges of the position and the time of the second mobile object, and to make the display device display a display component, and upon receiving input information for moving the display component, to correct the first predicted trajectory so that the line indicating the first predicted trajectory does not overlap with the abnormal approach region.

An electric taxi predictive performance system may provide a predicted performance for an electric based taxi system (eTaxi) based on environmental information related to a vehicle. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be an aircraft using eTaxi systems to move around an airport runway system. The electric predictive taxi performance system may provide real-time displayed data to help pilots evaluate eTaxi capabilities of the aircraft as conditions change.

Systems and methods for displaying a location reference indicator (LRI) associated with an ownship icon are provided. In various embodiments, an airport moving map (AMM) is displayed, and the ownship icon is displayed in the AMM, where the ownship icon represents the ownship. A degree of zoom of the AMM is determined. In response to a determination that the degree of zoom is not within a range of center referenced threshold values, a first LRI is displayed that indicates that the icon representing the ownship is not to scale with other objects displayed in the AMM. In response to a determination that the degree of zoom is within the range of center referenced threshold values, a second LRI is displayed.

The systems and methods of the present disclosure generally provide a plurality of onboard and off board positioning, anti-collision, and path following systems that may provide an accurate picture of where each aircraft, proximate a given airport, is located at any given moment in time. The systems and methods may also include determining what obstacles are around each aircraft, and what path the aircraft should follow while taxiing around the airport. Any given aircraft may be automatically navigated along a determined route using at least one engines-off taxiing system.

A prediction system with a unit for generating a current value of a parameter relating to the movement of an aircraft, a selection unit for a crew member of the aircraft to select an exit of the runway used for landing, an avionics computer for computing a value of the time of occupancy of the runway and a unit for transmitting this value to a user system. The avionics computer using an initial ground speed and an exit type and an exit distance of the exit selected, and computes the value of the time of occupancy of the runway, with the data and by using a prediction model comprising a neural network trained on the basis of landing data originating from previous landings.

This disclosure is directed to methods, systems, and computer program products for automated avoidance of ground threats by an aircraft. In one example, a method includes determining, by one or more processing devices, whether a sufficient evasive maneuver for an aircraft to avoid a detected ground surface threat is performed via pilot controls of the aircraft within a selected threshold after an alert of the ground surface threat is outputted via one or more cockpit systems of the aircraft. The method further includes, in response to determining that a sufficient evasive maneuver via the pilot controls is not performed within the selected threshold, controlling, by the one or more processing devices, one or more flight systems of the aircraft to perform an automated evasive maneuver to avoid the ground surface threat.

A taxiing path optimization system is provided for computing a taxi path of an aircraft using available taxi routes of a corresponding airport. An interaction means management unit manages interactions between a user and the taxiing path optimization system using an interactive device for inputting a taxi clearance. An aircraft positioning management unit manages positional information of the corresponding airport and aircraft received from a plurality of sources for augmenting an aircraft position by consolidating the aircraft position with the positional information in a complementary fashion. A taxi path display unit displays the taxi path based on the inputted taxi clearance and the augmented aircraft position, wherein the taxi path is automatically computed based on aircraft characteristics or airport capabilities.