Patent ID: 8362925
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A process to be carried out by an avionics display system deployed on a host aircraft and including a monitor, the process comprising: receiving air traffic data indicative of a neighboring aircraft's current detected position from a first air traffic data source; attributing an error characteristic to the first air traffic data source based, at least in part, on the type of instrumentation utilized by the first air traffic data source to detect the neighboring aircraft's current position; identifying an airspace assigned to the neighboring aircraft at a given time; reducing the volume of the assigned airspace as a function of the error characteristic attributed to the first air traffic data source to yield an error-compensated airspace for the neighboring aircraft; and generating on the monitor a visual representation of the outer boundaries of the neighboring aircraft's error-compensated airspace.