| abstract |
A system and a method for automatically avoiding collisions between own aircraft and other aircraft. The system comprises a computing unit (10), computing an fly away path for own aircraft, a sender (12), sending the computed own fly away path to the other aircraft, a receiver (14), receiving fly away paths from the other aircraft, and a collision handler (18), detecting an approaching collision bases on the own fly away path and the fly away paths received from the other aircraft, and activating a fly away maneuver upon detecting an approaching collision. The collision handler is adapted to receive information about commanded maneuvers of own aircraft, and to detect an approaching collision based on own aircraft maneuvers commanded during a time period between sending the computed own fly away path to the other aircraft and detecting the approaching collision. |