Patent ID: 8060262

Claim:
An airport lighting aid simulation system comprising: a data storage unit configured to store lighting aid data relating to a plurality of airports, the lighting aid data being indicative of a type and a location of an airport lighting aid available at a runway at each airport of the plurality of airports; a display unit; and a processing unit operatively connected to the data storage unit and to the display unit, the processing unit being configured: to receive an input signal indicative of a target runway at a target airport, to retrieve a sub-set of the lighting aid data from the data storage unit, the sub-set of the lighting aid data relating to a target runway lighting aid, and to control the display unit to display a target runway description based on the sub-set of the lighting aid data, whereby a pilot is enabled to determine whether a visible runway is the target runway by comparing a view from an aircraft as the aircraft approaches the visible runway with the target runway description.