Patent ID: 8538669

Claim:
A method for providing incursion alerts to a plurality of aircraft during flight, comprising: configuring, using a processor, a set of pilot preferences for each one of said aircraft during a pre-flight configuration phase; applying said set of pilot preferences to an incursion alert processing module for each one of said aircraft; maintaining a data store of conditions impacting said plurality of aircraft during takeoff, landing, and in flight, said data store of conditions including conditions relating to weather, airspace restrictions, temporary flight restrictions, ground delay programs, and air traffic; applying said data store to said incursion alert processing module; monitoring a respective flight path for each of said plurality of aircraft during flight; applying route and position data for each of said plurality of aircraft to said incursion alert processing module; evaluating by a processor, for each one of said aircraft, a corresponding one of said set of pilot preferences and an associated flight path against said data store; generating an incursion alert for each of said aircraft based on said evaluation; and transmitting one of said incursion alerts to each one of said aircraft during flight.