207 results about "General aviation" patented technology

The invention provides a general aviation flight monitoring airborne system based on an ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast). The system comprises an airborne ADS-B transceiver based on UAT (Ultra Aperture Terminal)\1090ES (Echo Sounding), a message processor based on the ADS-B and an airborne CDTI (Cockpit Display of Traffic Information) based on the ADS-B. The system provided by the invention has an ADS-B OUT/IN function and can be used for coding information input by an airborne FMS (flight management system), a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), a barometric altimeter and a pilot, generating a message and broadcasting the message; and the system can receive flight status ADS-B messages of other airplanes and ground monitoring messages and separate UAT signals from 1090ES signals by virtue of a UAT data chain and a 1090ES data chain. The system provided by the invention can be used for respectively verifying, storing and parsing the flight status of the other airplanes\ground monitoring messages, messages of a local airplane, heartbeat messages of a host, graphical display navigation information, traffic information of the local airplane and traffic information of the other airplanes within a certain range of the local airplane.

Disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website for rental vehicle reservations wherein the functionality of managing customer profiles/accounts is expanded upon to provide customers with greater control over the profile data stored in their associated personalized accounts/profiles, particularly in connection with the “favorite” or “preferred” branch locations for rental vehicle reservations that are stored in the customer profiles/accounts. Also disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website wherein customers who plan to travel via general aviation (GA) are provided with a GA reservation creation path that is responsive to their GA travel needs. Also disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website for rental vehicle reservations wherein customers are provided with a streamlined ability to log into their customer profiles/accounts. Preferably fields for customer entry of a password for a customer profile/account (and optionally a field for customer entry of a user name for a customer profile/account) are provided on several of the displayed web pages (e.g., a choose vehicle page, a renter information page, a choose location page etc.), or more preferably, on all of the web pages that are displayed to the customer when the customer has not yet logged into his/her profile/account.

A low-cost training and synthetic visualization system and method directed to improving an individual's airborne performance in general aviation, skydiving, and other aerial applications. The system is comprised of a self-contained mobile sensor and data storage device for recording the travel path, orientation, and forces acting upon an object as it moves through space, a desktop graphics software program for creating a playback of the recorded data on a three-dimensional representation of the environment through which the object moved, a means of linking the sensor and data storage device to the software program for the purpose of exchanging information, and a centralized data storage and retrieval system designed to accept, assimilate and redistribute the recorded data.

The invention provides a general aviation flight plan management system which comprises a flight plan database, a plan period management module, a plan generation reporting and recording module, a plan data service module and a system operation module. The flight plan database keeps flight plan data, basic and dynamic information data and user and system information data; the plan period management module is connected with the flight plan data and the basic and dynamic information data from the plan data service module to realize management operation of the flight plan; the plan generation reporting and recording module is connected with the flight plan data and the basic and dynamic information data from the plan data service module, and generates and reports and records a real-time flight plan according to user requests; the plan data service module is connected with the flight plan data and the basic and dynamic information data from the flight plan database for the plan period management module and the plan generation reporting and recording module to call; and the system operation module determines operation authority of users according to the user and system information data in the flight plan database.

The present invention proposes an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) architecture and process, in which priority aircraft and ADS-B IN and radar traffic information are included in the transmission of data through the telemetry communications to a remote ground control station. The present invention further proposes methods for displaying general aviation traffic information in three and/or four dimension trajectories using an industry standard Earth browser for increased situation awareness and enhanced visual acquisition of traffic for conflict detection. The present invention enable the applications of enhanced visual acquisition of traffic, traffic alerts, and en-route and terminal surveillance used to augment pilot situational awareness through ADS-B IN display and information in three or four dimensions for self-separation awareness.

The invention discloses a low-altitude aviation service station. The low-altitude aviation service station comprises a weather service system, an information service system, a flight plan service system and a monitoring service system, wherein the weather service system is used for providing weather service and ensuring that an operating environment of an aircraft meets weather conditions. The information service system is used for searching, clearing up, designing, manufacturing and issuing information materials for usage of flight crews and technical guarantee units in the organization and flight implementation process. The flight plan service system is used for providing flight plans and capable of providing control and information service for the aircraft according to approved flight plans. The monitoring service system is used for dynamically displaying flying situation information of the aircraft and reporting an airspace state in a region within the jurisdiction to a control center. The low-altitude aviation service station can monitor various all-purpose aircrafts executing flight missions in a low-altitude airspace and provide necessary flight plans, aviation meteorology, aviation information and other service.

The present invention relates to a lightweight beacon system, affixable, for example, to UAS, aircraft without electrical systems, airport surface vehicles, skydivers, gliders, and/or balloons. The lightweight beacon system uses a small, low-powered, portable radio beacon to broadcast the location of the aircraft, vehicle, or person to which the beacon system is attached. The lightweight beacon system is compatible with the FAA's Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) service, thereby providing a means for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), aircraft without electrical systems, airport surface vehicles, or persons to be observable to other general aviation aircraft operating in their proximity.

The invention discloses a general aviation operation monitoring system which comprises a GAMS (General Algebraic Modeling System) database server, a data connecting and processing service module, an operation monitoring service module, an account number service module and an equipment travel service module, wherein the GAMS database server stores attachment information data, user information data, flying position data, flying speed data, track angle data and flying event data; the data connecting and processing service module is used for analyzing the data by fields and classifying and storing the data; the operation monitoring service module realizes GIS (Geographic Information System) layer customization and can draw a real-time operation monitoring graph and a history playback graph; the account number service module comprises an account number management submodule and a seat management submodule; and the equipment travel service module comprises an attachment management submodule and a travel management submodule. The invention realizes the general aviation operation monitoring system with the advantages of complete functions and reasonable cost, and solves the difficulty of management and control in the general aviation in China.

A control apparatus, such as a hydrofoil, for general aviation class amphibious aircraft which include at least one fuselage having a hydrodynamic surface, the fuselage including a primary flight surface and a ducted power plant located aft and above the fuselage. The power plant location removes the fan/propeller arc from water and spray during water-borne taxiing, takeoff and landing. The combination of the hydrofoil, fuselage, lifting surface and ducting provides an aerodynamically efficient design with a lower center of gravity and protected powerplant for yielding improved performance including increased range and airspeed, together with favorable maneuverability, stability and control characteristics both aerodynamically and hydrodynamically.

The invention relates to a Beidou-based general aviation operation monitoring system and a monitoring method thereof. The system is composed of a ground monitoring system and an airborne equipment terminal system. The ground monitoring system is connected to the airborne equipment terminal system by a Beidou satellite. The ground monitoring system being ground equipment installed at a ground control center is used for monitoring the location of the general aviation airborne equipment terminal system and transmitting or receiving a location report and a communication report. The airborne equipment terminal system being an airborne device installed on a general aviation aircraft is used for realizing positioning and navigation of the general aviation aircraft and transmitting or receiving the location report and the communication report. According to the Beidou-based general aviation operation monitoring system and the monitoring method thereof, because the Beidou satellite is free fromrestrictions of the terrain, area, and environment, centralized commanding and monitoring of the ground monitoring system are realized; the flight conflicts are reduced or avoided; a problem that theground monitoring system can not be localized and monitored during the working process is solved; and the safety level of general aviation business is improved.

The invention provides a general airborne navigation system based on a ground mobile communication network, which comprises a general airborne navigation base station used for transmitting a navigation signal to a preset airspace range of 0-3000m by a ground mobile communication channel, a general aircraft, and general airborne equipment which is arranged on the general aircraft and is used for calculating by utilizing the navigation signal, three-dimensional coordinate information of the general airborne navigation base station and altitude data and height information of the general aircraftto obtain position information of the general aircraft, wherein the communication channel employed for navigation is a unidirectional transmission mode, which transmits the navigation signal in a form of broadcast. According to the embodiment of the invention, the navigation system has short construction cycle and low construction cost and can meet high-efficiency general airborne navigation positioning demand. In addition, because the special ground mobile communication channel and antenna design are employed in the general airborne navigation system, the navigation system cannot generate aninterference with not only a civil aircraft navigation system but ground mobile communication user and system.

The invention provides a safety monitoring method for a universal aerial vehicle and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The safety monitoring method aims at problems of single safety monitoring facility and low strength in existing low-altitude flight. Beidou RNSS and GPSL1 combined passive positioning technology, RDSS and ground cellular network communication technology are used for finishing flight state reporting and flight route service pushing of the universal aerial vehicle and the unmanned aerial vehicle. The safety monitoring method is characterized in that in cities and areas with large population density and ground cellular network coverage, comprehensive monitoring is performed through a ground secondary surveillance radar, ADS-B ground station equipment and Beidou/GPS double-mode positioning technology, thereby ensuring high accuracy of an aerial vehicle track; and in undeveloped and remote mountainous regions and areas without secondary surveillance radar or ADS-B ground station coverage, a lowest monitoring performance standard of the aerial vehicle is kept by means of Beidou/GPS double-mode positioning and Beidou RDSS communication. The safety monitoring method according to the invention is the low-altitude space domain safety monitoring method which has advantages of high universality, easy disposition and Chinese proprietary intellectual property right.

The invention provides an extendable core system for a universal avionics system, belonging to the design field of comprehensive avionics systems. The extendable core system comprises comprehensive treatment units, display units, an audio selecting and controlling unit and a motor parameter interface unit, wherein interfaces are reserved for all the parts; the comprehensive treatment units comprise a comprehensive treatment unit A and a comprehensive treatment unit B which are used for transmitting decision signals between each other; the decision signals are used for determining whether the comprehensive treatment unit A and the comprehensive treatment unit B normally work; when both the comprehensive treatment unit A and the comprehensive treatment unit B work normally, arbitration and treatment on the same data in the two comprehensive treatment units are carried out by taking the comprehensive treatment unit A as the main component and the comprehensive treatment unit B as the minor component; and the display units comprises a display unit A and a display unit B. In the invention, a comprehensive system framework is adopted; aiming at the universal avionics system, the extendable core system is extended and carries out cutting according to different application requirements based on supporting of a unified core system.

The invention provides an all-purpose aircraft airborne system and a communication supervision system based on the Tiantong-01 satellite. The communication supervision system comprises the all-purposeaircraft airborne system, a ground data processing system, and a satellite system. The satellite system is a Tiantong communication satellite, and serves as a communication circuit of the all-purposeaircraft airborne system and the ground data processing system. The ground data processing system tracks the flight position and track of an aircraft according to the positioning information transmitted by the all-purpose aircraft airborne system, and achieves the real-time voice and data communication. The communication supervision system can carry out the automatic switching of a transmission mode according to the intensity of different satellite signals, and achieve the selective call of one or more all-purpose aircrafts from the ground through the voice communication function of the Tiantong-01 satellite while achieving the voice communication between the ground and the all-purpose aircrafts. The system can achieve the seamless supervision and voice communication of the all-purpose aircrafts in an integrated manner, thereby greatly saving the construction and operation cost of the ground equipment.

The invention belongs to the technology of aircraft avionics systems, and relates to a general aviation aircraft fault intelligent processing system based on the cloud service. The general aviation aircraft fault intelligent processing system is characterized by comprising an airborne terminal, an aircraft maintenance terminal, a control tower terminal, a cloud server-side, an external aircraft maintenance terminal and a technical support end. The airborne terminal comprises a navigation aircraft data communication interface, a control module, a network communication module, a satellite positioning module, an automatic alarm module and a status display module, wherein all the modules except the control module are connected with the control module. The navigation aircraft data communication interface is connected with a collection sensor through a navigation aircraft communication bus. According to the general aviation aircraft fault intelligent processing system, faults which may happen to navigation aircrafts can be warned early, and a solution for processing the faults can be provided.

A multilevel vertical general aviation hangar, comprising a traffic inflow/outflow path and a pallet stack subsystem. There is also a pallet turntable located with the path. A pallet shuttle moves the pallet and contained vehicle from the turntable to a lift. The lift moves the pallet and vehicle to a predetermined location within a storage structure.