Patent ID: 9019146
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: B64D,G01S,G06T,G08G,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A method for indicating a weather threat to an aircraft comprising: determining a precipitation rate based on radar return data; causing an image of a plan view of the precipitation rate to be displayed on an aviation display; inferring a weather threat to an aircraft; determining a first threat level associated with a threat posed to the aircraft by the precipitation rate; determining a second threat level associated with the inferred weather threat; and causing a pattern to be overlaid on the image of the precipitation rate on a location on the aviation display corresponding to the location of the inferred weather in response to a determination by aircraft processing electronics that the second threat level associated with the inferred weather threat to the aircraft is greater than the first threat level associated with the threat posed to the aircraft by the precipitation rate for an airspace corresponding to that location on the aviation display.