Patent ID: 8902100
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: B64D,G01S,Y02A

Abstract:
1. An aircraft hazard warning system, comprising: electronic storage for lightning detection data; and a processing system having a processor configured to execute instructions stored within one or more non-transitory machine readable media, the instructions being executable to cause the processing system to: determine a presence of a region associated with a weather cell in response to radar return data; determine a location of at least one lightning strike from the lightning detection data; provide inferential turbulence detection to inferentially detect turbulence, wherein the inferential turbulence detection inferentially detects the turbulence in response to the location of the at least one lightning strike being correlated with the region associated with the weather cell; and provide a turbulence detection warning based upon the inferentially detected turbulence using the inferential turbulence detection.