AIREP-Autoland Message Generation for Aircraft Status Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack the capability to periodically share aircraft status information from autoland activated aircraft with air traffic control and other aircraft, which is essential for conflict detection and management.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that includes a transmitter and processing system within the aircraft to generate and transmit an AIREP-autoland message, combining standard AIREP data with autoland enablement and aircraft state data, allowing for periodic sharing of aircraft status information, including whether the autoland system is manually or automatically enabled, current aircraft state, and flight plan data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If standard AIREP transmission is used, then real-time weather information is shared, but autoland aircraft status information is not available to ATC and other aircraft
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines standard AIREP data with autoland-specific data (enablement status, aircraft state, flight plan) into a single integrated AIREP-autoland message. This merging approach transmits multiple types of information simultaneously through one communication channel, avoiding the need for separate transmission systems while ensuring ATC and other aircraft receive both weather and autoland status information together.
Solution Approach 2:
The AIREP-autoland message serves multiple functions: it provides standard weather reporting information while simultaneously conveying autoland enablement status, current aircraft state, and flight plan data. This multi-functional message structure allows a single transmission system to fulfill both conventional weather reporting needs and the new requirement for autoland status sharing.
2Reliability
If periodic sharing of autoland aircraft status information is implemented, then conflict detection capability is improved, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing of autoland data by appending it to standard AIREP data before transmission. The message is prepared in advance with all necessary information (autoland enablement, aircraft state, flight plan) organized and formatted, so that receiving systems can process the complete information package without requiring complex real-time data assembly or multiple separate data streams.
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AI summary
A system and method of transmitting an aircraft report (AIREP) from a first aircraft having an enabled aircraft autoland system includes retrieving, via a first processing system, standard AIREP data from one or more avionic systems within the first aircraft, the standard AIREP data including standard AIREP reporting information. The first processing system retrieves autoland enablement data that indicates whether the autoland system was manually or automatically enabled, and also retrieves autoland information data from the one or more avionics systems, where the autoland information data includes current aircraft state data and current flight plan data and is different from the standard AIREP data. The autoland information data is appended to the standard AIREP data to generate an AIREP-autoland message and the AIREP-autoland message is transmitted.