Patent ID: 8849477

Claim:
A method to be carried out by an avionics display system deployed on an aircraft and including a monitor, the avionics display system receiving position data indicative of the aircraft's detected position from at least one data source comprising instrumentation deployed onboard the aircraft or remote from the aircraft, the method comprising: attributing an instrumentation error characteristic to the data source; identifying an airspace assigned to the aircraft at a given time; reducing the volume of the assigned airspace based upon the magnitude of the instrumentation error characteristic in at least one dimension to determine an error-compensated airspace, the aircraft's actual position remaining within the assigned airspace provided that the aircraft's detected position resides within the error-compensated airspace; and generating on the monitor a visual representation of the outer boundaries of the error-compensated airspace; wherein, in determining the error-compensated airspace, the volume of the assigned airspace is reduced as the instrumentation error characteristic increases.