Patent ID: 6934633
Filing Date: 2005-08-23
Classification: G01C,G01S,G02B

Abstract:
1. A parachutist navigation system, comprising: a display adapted to be attached to a side vision area of a parachutist's goggles wherein upward and downward fields of view through the goggles are unobstructed; a housing, adapted to be attached to a parachutist's helmet, for supporting therein a plurality of components to include a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for receiving GPS signals; a processor coupled to said GPS receiver and to said display, said processor being programmed with mission data and using said mission data and said GPS signals to generate a plurality of display-formatted data sets to include a display-formatted data set of said mission data, a display-formatted data set of location data indicated by said GPS signals, and a display-formatted data set of computed data generated by said processor using said mission data and said location data; and means, coupled to said processor, for selecting at least one of said plurality of display-formatted data sets for output to said display; and means, located remotely with respect to said housing, for supplying said mission data to said processor.