vehicles the processor 304 is in operable communication with user interface 302 aural annunciator 306 display element 308 visual annunciator 310 and runway database 314 and is coupled to receive various types of data information commands signals etc from the various sensors data sources instruments and subsystems described herein in certain embodiments the processor 304 is configured to respond to data obtained by the onboard sensors to selectively retrieve data from the runway database 314 the processor 304 also provides appropriate commands to aural annunciator 306 and visual alert 310 as will be described hereinafter the processor 304 may be further configured to receive real time or virtually real time airspeed altitude attitude and or geographic position data for the aircraft position determining systems are suitably configured to obtain geographic position data for the aircraft the geographic position data obtained may represent the latitude and longitude of the aircraft in an ongoing and continuously updated manner in general an avionics suite 312 determines the current kinematic state of the aircraft and may include any suitable position and direction determination devices such as an inertial reference system irs an air data heading reference system ahrs or a global navigation satellite system gnss for example the avionics suite 312 provides at least the current position and velocity of the aircraft to a speed brake alerting system other aircraft state information may include the current heading current course current track altitude pitch and any desired flight information global positioning system gps technologies are commonly deployed in avionics applications as a source of aircraft position.