The Airborne Situational Awareness System (ASAS)  is an answer to the problem of airspace de-confliction between all Aerial Systems.  ASAS is a digital electronic device that will be carried by all vehicles that are capable of flight. Each unit consists of several electronic hardware modular sections that when integrated for the ASAS system. At precise timing sequences, the transceiver is receiving data from other airborne vehicles equipped with ASAS located within the 40-mile network range. The data contains elements of the GPS location, speed, flight path direction and altitude data of each of the other airborne vehicles.

The software also develops a set of projections that are compared to the relative speed, flight path direction and altitude of all the participating units. These projections will determine threat levels of converging flight paths that provide warning data to the pilots of pending flight path confliction situations. This also includes the capability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to be programmed to react to this data for autonomous flight path deviation allowing for UAV’s to deviate from pending flight path conflictions. Each airborne vehicle is identified on the display according to type, flight path threat level and maneuvering capability.

The software flight path projections are continually computed providing updates to the cockpit display unit. If the software engine discovers a threat of flight path confliction the threat will be displayed on the cockpit display unit providing visual cues of the impending threat. If the threat level is determined to be sever then an audio cue is also activated to provide additional flight path confliction threat warning. Once proper actions are taken to eliminate the threat the ASAS system will return to normal operating status.

ASAS incorporates a 3 Axis / 3 Dimensional Display for proper spatial depiction of airborne traffic patterns. These traffic targets and traffic path projections are displayed in correct spatial relationships to the host aircraft’s present and predicted position. The target traffic positions are displayed with Altitude | Heading | Speed. Each traffic target may be selected by the touch of the screen to present additional information about a traffic target of interest. This data will contain at a minimum the aircraft identifier, aircraft present location, distance from host aircraft, and altitude separation in relationship to host aircraft i.e.”N2839B 34M -1500 NF”.