Communications: electrical – Aircraft alarm or indicating systems – Flight alarm
Patent
1992-04-27
1993-11-16
Swarthout, Brent
Communications: electrical
Aircraft alarm or indicating systems
Flight alarm
7317011, 340949, 342 26, G08B 2300
Patent
active
052627730
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for detecting specialized meteorological conditions such as a microburst and also the wind condition generated behind an aircraft known as wake turbulence. The method and apparatus of the present invention is designed to display the location of the microburst directly on the flight controller's monitoring screen with the flight controller then being able to so inform any pilot of an aircraft of the microburst so that the pilot can take evasive action. The display on the flight controller's screen is to be in color. The displaying of the microburst on the screen is to be by means of a computer which utilizes as inputs the conventional aircraft surveillance radar, weather radar and ground radar as well as additional inputs of wind direction and velocity information obtained from detection devices mounted directly adjacent to the aircraft runway and along the approach and take-off areas for the runway.
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"The Federal Triangle", Washington Post Oct. 17, 1983, CL-340-968 FAA Plans to Buy Wind-Shear Alert Devices.
Munro Jack C.
Swarthout Brent
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