US 12,435,981 B2
Portable flight navigation tool adapted to assist pilots in compliance with international flight procedures and navigation
Shawn Scott, Livermore, CO (US)
Assigned to Scott International Procedures, LLC, Livermore, CO (US)
Filed by Scott International Procedures, LLC, Livermore, CO (US)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/235,147.
Application 18/235,147 is a continuation in part of application No. 18/046,009, filed on Oct. 12, 2022, granted, now 11,852,486.
Application 18/046,009 is a continuation of application No. 16/653,748, filed on Oct. 15, 2019, granted, now 11,512,959, issued on Nov. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/745,879, filed on Oct. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0151538 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. G01C 21/20 (2006.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01)
CPC G01C 21/20 (2013.01) [B64D 45/00 (2013.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flight navigation tool for use in aircraft cockpits comprising:
a tablet computer having a GPS receiver and nonvolatile memory;
the nonvolatile memory having recorded therein a flight navigation routine, an aviation database comprising international operating rules comprising transoceanic flight rules, and machine-readable code configured to display portions of the international operating rules upon demand;
a moving-map database configured with tracks, coastal airport identifiers and locations, predefined routes, and predefined reporting point locations for transoceanic operations;
readable code that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to obtain a current location from the GPS receiver, and to indicate the current location on a moving-map display representing a portion of the moving-map database;
a trip database, and machine-readable code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive direct-entered waypoint coordinates or selection of predefined tracks to configure the trip database with a planned transoceanic route for an individual flight; and
a checklist database and machine-readable code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to compare the current location with popup display locations at which checklists from the checklist database are automatically displayed on the moving-map display, the checklists comprising a pre-departure flight phase, a coast-out flight phase, a waypoint-reached flight phase, and a coast-in flight phase;
machine-readable code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to provide a heading and next-waypoint timing for a rhumb-line route from a location where the GPS receiver fails to a next waypoint of a currently active route; and
wherein the checklist database comprises checklists for at least a pre-departure flight phase, a coast-out flight phase, a waypoint-reached flight phase, and a coast-in flight phase.