Patent ID: 8589071

Claim:
A vision system for an aircraft, comprising: a system configured to determine a position and dimensions of a target runway, the system including a flight director configured to provide an approach vector; and a display coupled to the system and configured to display a conformal runway representing the target runway and a highlighted runway indicator, the conformal runway having an approach end, a departure end, a first side, and a second side, the runway indicator comprising: a threshold at the approach end; a line indicating an approach course having an end terminating at the runway threshold; an outline on the approach end, departure end, first side, and second side of the conformal runway; a rectangle surrounding the conformal runway having two sides with a distance therebetween greater than the runway width, and two ends with a distance therebetween greater than the runway length, and one of the two ends crossing the landing zone perpendicular to the conformal runway, the size, perspective, and position of the rectangle based on the target runway size, altitude, and attitude; a touchdown zone on the conformal runway near the approach end, the touchdown zone calculated from a runway database, the flight-path vector terminating at the touchdown zone and its position based on the target runway size, and aircraft altitude and attitude; and a virtual precision path approach indicator derived from approach aircraft position data and the runway database.