ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,773, issued on March 25.
"Flight training and landing assistant" was invented by Erik Kysar (Yacolt, Wash.) and Sami Kysar (Laporte, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight training and landing assistant which utilizes a processor, a time-of-flight laser distance measurement device used to calculate vertical height measurements of the aircraft above the ground during landing and takeoff modes of flight, automatically compensating for user installation errors electronically. In some embodiments, the flight training and landing assistant determines and communicates various information such as pitch, roll, and g-forces. In some e...