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An alarm means including a digital microcomputer having a memory programmed for storing a look-up table defining an alarm envlope which, above a predetermined altitude, is based on a relationship between altitude and ground-closure rate which is independent of ground velocity, and below said predete

An alarm means including a digital microcomputer having a memory programmed for storing a look-up table defining an alarm envlope which, above a predetermined altitude, is based on a relationship between altitude and ground-closure rate which is independent of ground velocity, and below said predetermined altitude, is based on a relationship between altitude and ground-closure rate which is dependent on ground velocity.

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An excessive ground-closure rate alarm system for aircraft, comprising: altitude measuring means for measuring the altitude of the aircraft; means for computing therefrom the ground-closure rate; and alarm means for producing an alarm when the computed ground-closure rate is excessive for the partic

An excessive ground-closure rate alarm system for aircraft, comprising: altitude measuring means for measuring the altitude of the aircraft; means for computing therefrom the ground-closure rate; and alarm means for producing an alarm when the computed ground-closure rate is excessive for the particular altitude, characterized in that said alarm means includes a digital microcomputer having a memory and being operative to cause the means for measuring the altitude of the aircraft to repeatedly measure the instantaneous altitude of the aircraft and compute a sequence of average altitudes and a value representing the vertical acceleration of said aircraft between successive ones in said average altitude sequence, said computation being used to further compute a predicted aircraft altitude and ground-closure rate after the elapse of a predetermined time delay to compensate for the pilot\s reaction time, said alarm means being further characterized in that said memory contains a look-up table defining an alarm envelope which, above a predetermined altitude, is based on a relationship between the predicted altitude and ground-closure rate which is independent of ground velocity, and below said predetermined altitude, is based on a relationship between the predicted altitude and ground-closure rate which is dependent on ground velocity, said relationship being defined by a plurality of lines, each line corresponding to a different ground speed varying from zero ground speed to a specified maximum ground speed, said microcomputer being pre-programmed with information specifying the maximum ground speed at landing with zero ground-closure rate, a maximum ground-closure rate at landing with zero ground speed, and minimum altitude at specified maximum ground speed, said alarm means setting an alarm flag when the aircraft is within the alarm envelope, said alarm means being actuated only when a first predetermined number, greater than one, of alarm flags have been set during a second predetermined number of previous altitude measurements.