Patent ID: 7589644

Claim:
A method to help a person responsible for a vehicle on an airport runway to follow runway running procedures, said method using a device comprising a) a database, comprising: i) data which model all or some of an airport environment; ii) data which model characteristics of the vehicle such as the dimensions, weight, mobility characteristics, iii) runway running predefined procedures such as running authorization onto a traffic way, taxiway, parking area, routing, compulsory transfer points; b) first means for acquiring and determining vehicle status information; c) second means for acquiring additional procedures supplied by the person responsible for the vehicle or by an airport supervisor; d) third means for acquiring complementary information relative to said data which model all or some of the airport environment; e) calculating means; f) graphically displaying means; g) sound and visual alarms generating means; wherein said method comprises at least the following steps: determining which procedures are applicable to the vehicle, among said additional procedures and said runway running predefined procedures; continuously calculating deviations between the behaviour of the vehicle and applicable procedures; graphic displaying progress of the vehicle while running and deviations from applicable procedures; triggering visual and/or sound alerts in said sound and visual alarm generating means when a predetermined deviation threshold is crossed.