Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080215196 | METHOD AND SYSTEM USED BY AN AIRCRAFT TO FOLLOW A DESCENT TRAJECTORY MATCHED WITH A TIME SCHEDULE - The present invention relates to a method and a system used by an aircraft to follow a descent trajectory matched with a time schedule. The method is characterized in that the speed of the aircraft is servo-controlled to the speed required to comply with the time schedule by adjusting the pitch angle when the aircraft is not below the planned altitude on the trajectory beyond a threshold and by adjusting the engine thrust when the aircraft is below the planned altitude on the trajectory beyond the threshold. | 09-04-2008 |
20080243319 | METHOD FOR UPDATING METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION FOR AN AIRCRAFT - The present invention relates to a method for updating meteorological information for an aircraft. The FMS computer automatically makes the request for the meteorological data so as to anticipate the updating of the latter as soon as an update is available. This automation allows the crew to have the data ready for display and use without waiting, to reduce and smooth the workload of the crew by anticipating the request and the processing of these data, and to limit the potential confusion associated with the receipt, hitherto verbal, of the ATIS information. | 10-02-2008 |
20080300738 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING A FLIGHT PLAN - A method of optimizing a flight plan of an aircraft used in a flight management system of an aircraft is disclosed. This method makes it possible to constrain the real cost index of the mission executed to the optimal cost index CI | 12-04-2008 |
20090043434 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING AN APPROACH TRAJECTORY OF AN AIRCRAFT TO AN AIRPORT - The invention relates to a method for calculating an approach trajectory of an aircraft ( | 02-12-2009 |
20090045982 | SYSTEM FOR AIDING THE GUIDANCE OF AN AIRCRAFT ON AN AIRPORT - The general field of the invention is that of systems for aiding the guidance of an aircraft on an airport. The system according to the invention comprises means for determining at least one element of the topology of the airport in relation to the position of the aircraft for selecting. Selecting means are provided by the pilot of the aircraft for the element. Generating means are provided to generate at least one guidance or safety set-point using the topological element. Presenting means are provided for the element or the associated set-point on a man-machine interface to the pilot of the aircraft. | 02-19-2009 |
20090130982 | METHOD FOR UPDATING AUDIO COMMUNICATION FREQUENCIES BETWEEN AIRCRAFT AND ATC STATIONS ON THE GROUND - The present invention relates to a method for automatically preparing an update of audio communication frequencies between aircraft and ATC stations on the ground, a method making it possible to reduce the communication time associated with the necessary frequency changes between control sectors, therefore limiting the frequency space requirement, and reducing the workload due to the manipulations and control of these frequency changes, both for the air traffic controllers and for the aircraft crews, and wherein the flight plan or the current trajectory followed by the aircraft is dynamically coupled with the geometry information of the control sectors overflown by the aircraft and that, thereby knowing the intersection points of the flight plan with the sector limits, the frequency changes and sector name are prepared before each change of sector, while warning the pilot of their imminence. | 05-21-2009 |
20090177341 | METHOD OF DECOUPLING THE MODE OF AUTOMATIC FOLLOWING OF THE LATERAL PROFILE AND THE MODE OF AUTOMATIC FOLLOWING OF THE VERTICAL PROFILE - The present invention relates to a method of decoupling the mode of automatic following of the lateral profile and the mode of automatic following of the vertical profile of an automatic guidance system of an aircraft (A) flying on a reference trajectory (T). The mode of automatic following of the vertical profile is not disengaged immediately on disengaging the mode of automatic following of the lateral profile. After disengaging the mode of automatic following of the lateral profile, the mode of automatic following of the vertical profile is disengaged automatically only if at least one criterion of lateral separation between the current or short-term position of the aircraft and the lateral profile corresponding to the reference trajectory is satisfied, having regard to the position error. | 07-09-2009 |
20100217510 | Method for Managing the Flight of an Aircraft - The invention relates to a method for managing the flight of an aircraft flying along a trajectory and being subject to an absolute time constraint (on a downstream point) or relative time constraint (spacing with respect to a downstream aircraft), the said aircraft comprising a flight management system calculating a temporal discrepancy to the said time constraint, wherein the said method includes the following steps: the calculation of a distance on the basis of the temporal discrepancy, the modification of the trajectory: if the temporal discrepancy to the time constraint corresponds to an advance, the lengthening of the trajectory by the distance; if the temporal discrepancy to the time constraint corresponds to a delay, the shortening of the trajectory by the distance. | 08-26-2010 |
20100250026 | Interactive Navigation Device - The subject of the invention is an interactive navigation device comprising at least one navigation screen making it possible to display a graphical representation of at least one flight plan, a flight plan being composed of points and of segments. The device comprises means for displaying several flight plans simultaneously on the navigation screen at the same time as flight information text fields associated with the points of the said flight plans, the flight information fields being displayed in a manner contiguous with the points associated with them so as to be able to compare them conveniently. The device also comprises means for displaying on the navigation screen flight information fields associated with the segments of the flight plans, the said flight information fields being displayed in a manner contiguous with the segments associated with them. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250117 | Device for Flight Plan Display with Displacement Based on Jumps - The subject of the invention is a device for displaying flight plans of an aircraft comprising a control unit with at least one first display area comprising a textual list of identifiers of points, of pseudo-points and/or of segments that is representative of a portion of the flight plan, the display of the said list being centred around a central display point, the said point corresponding to a point, a pseudo-point or a segment of the flight plan, the said device being characterized in that it comprises means for displacing by jumps the flight plan portion displayed in the first display area by selecting a different central display point from the current central display point, the said selected point becoming the new central display point. | 09-30-2010 |
20110137493 | Method for Continuously and Adaptively Generating a Speed Setpoint for an Aircraft to Observe an RTA - Method for generating a flight speed profile of an aircraft ( | 06-09-2011 |
20130144518 | Method, Device and System for Guaranteeing a Temporal Spacing Between an Aircraft and At Least One Reference Moving Object - A method is provided for guaranteeing a temporal spacing between an aircraft and at least one reference moving object, said spacing needing to be guaranteed no later than at a point in the flight plan called the point of interception, with the aircraft following a current flight plan. The feasibility of guaranteeing the spacing at a date Tcour by regulating the speed of the aircraft while maintaining the current flight plan is verified in a first step. In a second step it is verified whether the date Tcour is contained within a feasibility range. In a third step the current flight plan is modified when the feasibility is not verified, a lateral trajectory between the current position Xcour of the aircraft and the point of interception being implemented in this case such that the spacing can be attained by regulating the speed. | 06-06-2013 |
20130317739 | FLIGHT MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR AN AIRCRAFT ADAPTED TO THE HANDLING OF MULTIPLE TIME CONSTRAINTS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - A device and method for flight management of an aircraft along a flight plan comprises a plurality of waypoints comprising a computation of the temporal predictions determining the temporal situation of the aircraft for each waypoint of the flight plan, a temporal situation of the aircraft being defined by at least one set of information from among the group comprising the target time of transit at each waypoint the estimated minimum and maximum times of arrival at each waypoint, the estimated time of transit at the waypoint, and a formatting and display simultaneously presenting the temporal situations of the said plurality of waypoints | 11-28-2013 |
20140172204 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING DATA RELATING TO A FLIGHT PLAN ON A HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE - A method and a device is provided for supplying, in summary fashion on a single page of a screen for each point, the data relating to a flight plan. The method makes it possible to establish relevant groups of information according to the situation of the flight and to summarize the display of the data in folded-up mode or in an unfolded lateral mode. The unfolded display offers, on one and the same page, a more precise detail of the situation, by ergonomically and intuitively showing in the columns the predictions in relation to a type of constraint. | 06-19-2014 |
20140365041 | METHOD FOR MANAGING A VERTICAL FLIGHT PLAN - A method for managing a vertical flight plan comprises: a first step of breaking down an initial flight plan into a succession of contiguous segments, each segment comprising a change of altitude and/or of speed; a second step of calculating a lateral flight path of the flight plan based on the contiguous segments; a third step of calculating a vertical profile and a speed profile based on the calculated lateral flight path; a fourth step is a step of determining an active segment during the flight of the aircraft, by longitudinal distance sequencing of the contiguous segments. The method is notably suitable for the integration of tactical flight segments into a flight plan. | 12-11-2014 |