Aircraft surface state event track system and method

1. An automatic and autonomous aircraft surface state event track system, comprising:

a mobile device installed on an aircraft, the mobile device comprising:

sensors to acquire information indicating operation of the aircraft on a surface of an airport, and

a processor:

executing an application to control the sensors and to receive the information therefrom and to process of the information;

controlling a memory to record the processed information; and

controlling a transmitter to transmit the processed information from the aircraft; and

a service, remote from the aircraft and in communication with the mobile device, the service comprising a computer executing machine instructions to:

control a receiver to receive the information from the transmitter,

identify the information received from the mobile device,

compare the identified information to known data for the aircraft,

based on the comparison, determine the aircraft is at a defined aircraft surface state, comprising:

comparing digital audio data recorded at the mobile device with known sound profiles for the aircraft at the defined surface state;

comparing aircraft motion data recorded at the mobile device with known motion data for the aircraft at the defined surface state; and

designating a defined surface state reached status based on the comparisons, and

direct transmission of an aircraft surface state reached message to Local and Center flight management, wherein no information acquired by and processed through the mobile device is provided to a cockpit crew of the aircraft.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising the computer executing a statistical routine and provide statistical data from the execution relating to an occurrence of an expected upcoming aircraft surface state and direct transmission of the statistical data with the aircraft surface state reached message.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device is a Portable Electronic Flight Bag.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein:

the machine instructions are stored on a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium; and

the computer and the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium are components of a flight management center cloud storage device installed at the flight management center.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the service receives an OFF indication and in response the computer associates the OFF indication with flight and airplane information of the aircraft.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computer determines the aircraft is scheduled as a tactical departure.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the computer determines a confidence interval for a coordinated release time of the tactical departure.

8. The system of claim 1 , to compare the identified information to known data for the aircraft, the computer:

compares digital audio data recorded at the mobile device with known sound profiles for the aircraft at the defined surface state; and

compares aircraft motion data recorded at the mobile device with known motion data for the aircraft, and wherein based on the comparison, the computer determines the aircraft is at a defined aircraft surface state.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the computer identifies aircraft surfaces states comprising gate pushback, runway entry and takeoff and computes a confidence interval for one or more confidence levels for one or more defined aircraft surface states.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device acquires additional signals information including aircraft speed and direction information.