Patent ID: 9098996
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for combining runway map information with runway status information for a selected runway, said method comprising: retrieving, with a processing device, runway map information for the selected runway from at least one database, the runway map information including runway exit information for the selected runway; retrieving, with the processing device, runway status information, including runway condition information, for the selected runway from at least one source of runway status information; generating, by the processing device, exit availability information by determining from a mass of an aircraft approaching the selected runway, the runway exit information, and the runway condition information, whether the aircraft is capable of exiting the selected runway at a predefined location; generating, through a program executing on the processing device, a depiction of the selected runway on at least one display device; and generating for display proximate the runway depiction, through the execution of the program, a plurality of contextual symbology associated with the runway, the symbology based on the retrieved runway map information and the retrieved runway status information, the contextual symbology including the exit availability information.