ATC Message Transcription With Tagged Flight Performance Advisories
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Solution Overview
Problem
Air traffic control (ATC) communications do not effectively convey the impact of message modifications on flight performance parameters to flight crews, necessitating improved systems for intelligent decision support and enhanced cockpit situational awareness.
Innovation Solution
A system that transcribes ATC messages using voice-to-text technology, analyzes them for flight plan information, and generates visual user interfaces with tagged flight performance parameters, such as fuel remaining and time of arrival, to assist flight crews in understanding the impact of ATC instructions on aircraft performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If voice-to-text transcription is used to convert ATC messages, then the messages can be displayed and processed, but the impact on flight performance parameters is not readily discernable to the flight crew
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing system that sits between the voice-to-text transcription and the flight crew display. This intermediary automatically analyzes the transcribed ATC messages, extracts flight plan information, calculates impact on flight performance parameters (fuel, time, distance), and presents this information in a user-friendly format. This mediator bridges the gap between raw transcription data and actionable intelligence for pilots.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs automated self-service mechanisms where the computer automatically transcribes voice messages, parses flight plan details, computes performance parameter impacts, and generates displayed information without requiring manual intervention from flight crew. This self-service approach eliminates the need for pilots to manually analyze ATC messages while ensuring accurate performance impact assessment.
2Measurement precision
If detailed flight plan information is extracted and analyzed, then flight performance parameters can be determined, but the processing time and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and storing flight plan information as it becomes available from ATC communications. Instead of analyzing everything from scratch when needed, the system has already parsed and organized flight plan details in advance, so when performance parameter calculation is required, the computation can proceed quickly using pre-prepared data structures and extracted information.
3Loss of information
If ATC messages are transcribed and displayed with performance advisories, then crew situational awareness is enhanced, but the visual interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The visual interface applies local quality by presenting information in context-specific locations within the display. Rather than showing all performance parameters uniformly, the system selectively displays relevant performance advisories near the corresponding ATC messages or flight plan elements that triggered them. This localized presentation allows pilots to quickly find performance impact information related to specific ATC instructions without being overwhelmed by unrelated data.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for providing a visual user interface on a display associated with an aircraft. The systems and methods transcribe, using a voice to text application, an ATC broadcast message; analyze the transcribed ATC broadcast message for flight plan information; send a request to an avionics service system to determine at least one flight performance parameter based on the flight plan information; receive the determined at least one flight performance parameter from the avionics service system in response to the request; and render a visual User Interface (UI) including the transcribed ATC broadcast message and a flight performance parameter advisory based on the at least one flight performance parameter, wherein the flight performance parameter advisory is tagged to the transcribed ATC broadcast message in the visual UI.