Patent ID: 7117089

Claim:
A computer program product comprising: a computer usable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for configuring a computer, the computer program product comprising: (a) computer-readable code configured to cause a computer to periodically receive one or more state parameters of interest; (b) computer-readable code configured to cause a computer to periodically access a searchable database of stored data describing airport features of interest and to retrieve therefrom one or more of the stored data; (c) computer-readable code configured to cause a computer to construct a zone of awareness relative to one or more of the retrieved airport features of interest; (d) computer-readable code configured to cause a computer to periodically compare the state parameters with one or more of the zones of awareness; (e) computer-readable code configured to cause a computer to periodically detect one or more alert conditions as a function of comparing the state parameters with one or more of the zones of awareness; (f) computer-readable code configured to cause a computer to generate an alert as a function of at least one of the detected alert conditions; and (g) computer-readable code configured to cause a computer to output an annunciation representative of the alert.