Patent ID: 7711484

Claim:
A method for avoiding collisions between own aircraft and one or more other aircraft, each aircraft comprising an automatic collision avoidance system, the method comprising: computing a default fly out maneuver regarding how the aircraft shall be maneuvered during a fly out action, predicting a fly away path comprising a prediction of the position of the aircraft during the fly out maneuver, sending information about the own fly away path to the other aircraft, receiving information about fly away paths from the other aircraft, detecting an approaching collision based on the own fly away path and the fly away paths received from the other aircraft, and activating the fly out maneuver upon detecting an approaching collision, and wherein the following steps are carried out after activation the fly out maneuver: receiving the current position of the aircraft, and calculating a compensated fly out maneuver for the aircraft based on the current position of the aircraft, said previously predicted position, and the default fly out maneuver, wherein the compensated fly out maneuver is calculated by adjusting the default fly out maneuver in such a way that the position of the aircraft approaches the previously predicted position, thereby reducing the deviation between a performed fly out path and the predicted fly away path.