Patent ID: 8527117
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: B64D,G01C,G05D

Abstract:
1. An aircraft hover system for enabling an aircraft to hover at a target spatial location represented by GPS location coordinates, the hover system including a display means rendering a display, comprising: (a) a live video feed of terrain below an airborne aircraft; (b) a first mark overlaying the video feed, the first mark representing a current position of the aircraft relative to the terrain; and (c) a perimeter surrounding the first mark, a portion of the terrain within the perimeter being magnified compared to that of the terrain outside of the perimeter; wherein the system is configured such that, as the aircraft reaches a target spatial location, the distance between the first mark and a second mark on the display decreases until the first and second marks coincide to within a predetermined tolerance; the second mark representing the target spatial location.