Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080243316 | Method For Setting an Aircraft Barometric Altitude - The invention relates to a method for aiding the setting of the barometric altitude of an aircraft equipped with a means ( | 10-02-2008 |
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 |
20080262665 | METHOD OF CALCULATING APPROACH TRAJECTORY FOR AIRCRAFT - The general field of the invention relates to a method of calculating a so-called continuous descent approach procedure for aircraft. The method comprises calculation steps making it possible to determine a minimum distance making it possible to attain the runway by using the highest possible descent angles allowed by the performance of the aircraft, a maximum distance making it possible to attain the runway by using the lowest possible descent angles allowed by the performance of the aircraft, a step of comparing the minimum and maximum distances with a reference distance, the continuous descent approach procedure being possible if this reference distance is less than the maximum distance and greater than the minimum distance. The method also envisages replacing certain indeterminate points of the flight plan by points arising from the minimum and maximum distance calculations. | 10-23-2008 |
20080300737 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALCULATING A FLIGHT PLAN - The invention relates to a method for calculating a diversion flight plan making it possible to define at least one diversion airport to have the associated predictions on the corresponding diversion flight plan. The invention also relates to a device comprising means implementing the method according to the invention. The device according to the invention makes it possible to change, in the course of the flight, the said waypoint from which the diversion flight plan is calculated. The method according to the invention furthermore calculates the last possible diversion point on the flight plan, based on the fuel predictions. | 12-04-2008 |
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 |
20080300739 | METHOD OF GENERATING AN AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PLAN - The field of the invention is that of the generation of an aircraft flight plan. The invention more specifically relates to a method of generating a flight plan enabling an aircraft to link a departure airport AD to a destination airport AA. The flight plan consists of a number N−1 of segments SG | 12-04-2008 |
20080312779 | FLIGHT MANAGEMENT COMPUTER WITH CONSIDERATION OF APPROACH SPEED CONSTRAINT - The flight management computer discloses and carried onboard an aircraft can be programmed with a newly apparent speed constraint while it ensures the guidance of the aircraft in the course of a landing runway approach. It then takes account of the speed constraint by using it as target speed, when it is greater than an instruction speed which depends on the number of extended flap settings and which corresponds to the addition of a further flap setting. If appropriate, the speed constraint may be bounded below, thus making it possible to remain within the limits of the flight domain of the aircraft in its configuration at the time. | 12-18-2008 |
20090018713 | SYSTEM FOR AIDING THE TAXIING OF AN AIRCRAFT - The invention relates to an integrated system carried onboard the aircraft used during taxiing or air/ground and ground/air transitions whose final objective is assistance to the crew in collaboration with the ground control authority. The system groups together a set of devices for mapping | 01-15-2009 |
20090076717 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING AN AIRCRAFT TO REJOIN A FLIGHT PLAN BY INTERCEPTION OF A FLIGHT SEGMENT CLOSE TO THE AIRCRAFT - A method for assisting an aircraft to rejoin a flight plan is disclosed. The flight plan is composed of a number N of flight segments (LEG | 03-19-2009 |
20090076721 | NAVIGATION AID METHOD - The invention relates to a navigation aid method and device for an aircraft. The aircraft occupies a position PPOS outside its flight plan and seeks to rejoin the flight plan. The flight plan includes a succession of waypoints. A waypoint WPT | 03-19-2009 |
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 |
20090201197 | METHODS OF OPTIMIZING THE LOCATION OF AN AIRCRAFT ON THE GROUND AND IN THE TAKE-OFF AND LANDING PHASES - The present invention relates to the field of methods and systems for optimizing the locating of an aircraft in airports and, more particularly, in the take-off and landing phases, and notably in the air-ground and ground-air transition phases. The method of optimizing the locating of an aircraft during the take-off or landing phase comprising a transition step ( | 08-13-2009 |
20090204277 | Method of Estimating Atmospheric Data at Any Point of a Path of an Aircraft - The subject of the present invention is a method of estimating, at any point of a path of an aircraft, characteristics of the wind making it possible to take very close account of the winds to construct predictions of the times of passage and of the consumption of the aircraft along its flight plan, and this method is characterized in that it consists in collecting, around the trajectory of the aircraft, a grid of parameter values of winds at a predetermined number of points in space, in comparing these values to those deriving from space-time wind trend models, in selecting, path section by section, the most likely model, and in interpolating, for each section, the local characteristics of the wind of all the points of interest of the trajectory. | 08-13-2009 |
20100100308 | Device for Calculating a Flight Plan of an Aircraft - The invention relates to a device for formulating a flight plan ensuring sufficient safety margins for a duration of a few minutes in relation to the set of flight constraints that could arise and comprising means for:
| 04-22-2010 |
20100152930 | Method for Determining the Speed of an Aircraft - The invention relates to a method for determining the speed of an aircraft that is subject to a time constraint. The invention consists no longer in calculating a single CAS/MACH pair during climb/descent but in adapting the speed in a continuous manner to the bounds of curves of minimum V | 06-17-2010 |
20100152931 | Meteorological Modelling Method for Calculating an Aircraft Flight Plan - The invention relates to a meteorological modelling method for calculating an aircraft flight plan, the aircraft comprising a communication means and a navigation management system. | 06-17-2010 |
20100152996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE RELATIVE SPACING BETWEEN AIRCRAFT - The invention presents a method providing for the optimized regulation of the relative spacing between aircraft. This method can be implemented by a system whose physical architecture can rely mainly on existing computers on board most current aircraft. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161156 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTING IN THE CHOICE OF A DIVERSION AIRPORT - The invention relates to a device for assisting in the choice of a diversion airport for an aircraft piloted by a crew ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100217459 | Method for Aiding the Formulation of the Speed Strategy of an Aircraft with a View to Adhering to a Time Constraint - The invention relates to a method for formulating the strategy of an aircraft, with a view to favouring adherence to a time constraint. | 08-26-2010 |
20100274418 | Method for Determining the Quantity of Fuel Taken On Board an Aircraft Making it Possible to Maintain a Time Requirement of the RTA Type - A method for determining the quantity of fuel in an aircraft and an optimization criterion such as a cost index, notably used in an FMS, making it possible to maintain a time requirement of the RTA type, comprising a first step of computing the optimization criterion CI | 10-28-2010 |
20100274419 | Method and Device for Adjusting the Trajectory of an Aircraft in a Climb Circuit - A method of adjusting the trajectory of an aircraft flying a climb circuit, of substantially helical form corresponding to a succession of racetracks, denoted HOLD, the last HOLD, called the exit HOLD, having predefined geometric characteristics and comprising a lock-on point, allowing the aircraft to enter and to exit in the HOLD, the aircraft attaining the setpoint altitude of the climb circuit during the flight of the exit HOLD, comprises at least three steps, including: a step of computing the prediction of the position of the aircraft when the setpoint altitude will be attained; a step of computing the remaining distance to be traveled, between the position of the aircraft when the setpoint altitude will be attained and the lock-on point; and a step making it possible to carry out an adaptation of the form of the exit HOLD so as to minimize the remaining distance to be traveled DELTA. | 10-28-2010 |
20100324757 | Method and Device for Optimizing the Deceleration Point of a Holding Circuit - A method for optimizing the computation of the position of the braking point on the approach to a holding circuit for aircraft is provided. The method comprises computing the optimal position of the theoretical deceleration point allowing the aircraft to pass from its current speed to the maximum speed authorized at the entry point and of the theoretical deceleration distance, computing a trajectory portion forming a turn allowing the aircraft to enter the holding circuit and the position of the point of the start of the turn, computing a point for anticipating the turn, making it possible to take into account the banking rate of the aircraft, computing a margin, and computing the start-of-braking point, situated at a distance. | 12-23-2010 |
20100324812 | Method of short-term rejoining of a flight plan by radar guidance of an aircraft - Method of formulating a lateral flight trajectory for the rejoining by an aircraft ( | 12-23-2010 |
20110077858 | METHOD FOR ASSISTING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF A FLIGHT IN ORDER TO KEEP TO A TIME CONSTRAINT - Method for assisting in the flight management of an aircraft aiming to reach a constraint point on a predetermined lateral trajectory that is assumed to have to be followed by the aircraft, at a required time of arrival RTA, said aircraft occupying a current position defined by a current altitude with a current horizontal speed. The method including, when it follows a rallying flight plan, calculating a new rallying flight plan following the lateral trajectory to be followed and including a new estimated speed profile different from the estimated speed profile over at least one update area, the new estimated speed profile including, over said update areas, either a value greater than that of the estimated speed profile, if the arrival time difference is positive, or a value less than that of the estimated speed profile, if the arrival time difference is negative. | 03-31-2011 |
20110077859 | METHOD FOR AIDING THE MANAGEMENT OF A FLIGHT WITH A VIEW TO ADHERING TO A TIME CONSTRAINT - A method of flight management of an aircraft aimed at reaching a constrained point on a predetermined lateral trajectory assumed to be followed by the aircraft, at a required time of arrival RTA to within an absolute tolerance. The method including calculating a flight plan to be followed and a homing flight plan and when the estimated time of arrival ETA based on the homing flight plan strays from an absolute tolerance with respect to the calculation required time of arrival RTAc, calculating a new calculation required time of arrival NRTAc dependent on the calculation required time of arrival RTAc and a function f of the difference between the calculation required time of arrival RTAc and the estimated time of arrival ETA, and replacing the calculation required time of arrival RTAc with the new calculation required time of arrival NRTAc, before recalculating a flight plan to be followed. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082605 | AIRCRAFT PILOTING ASSISTANCE METHOD AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE - An aircraft piloting assistance method and system including determining at least one flyable slope with which the aircraft is assumed to be able to fly, based on a value of at least one flight parameter including the weight of the aircraft. The step for determining said slope or slopes with which the aircraft is able to fly, called flyable slopes is performed by a computer, and presenting the flyable slope to a decision-maker. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087428 | DEVICE FOR AIDING THE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT OF AN AIRCRAFT - A device for aiding the flight management of an aircraft includes a navigation display, a personalized database capable of storing navigation-aid data, each datum comprising a classification type representative of a family or of one or more categories of navigation-aid data, one or more periods of validity of the said datum, information relating to at least one geographic zone of the said datum, one graphic and/or textual representation of the said datum, selection means allowing an operator to choose one (or more) type(s) of classification, called selected type(s), extraction means capable of extracting from the personalized database the navigation-aid datum or data called extracted data of which the type is equal to at least one selected type, of which at least one geographic zone is situated at a distance, from the flight plan or from the aircraft, that is less than a predetermined maximum distance and of which at least one period of validity verifies a predefined display time criterion, the said extraction means transmitting the said extracted datum or data to the said navigation display capable of displaying the representations of the said extracted data. | 04-14-2011 |
20130238174 | METHOD OF CORRECTING A LATERAL TRAJECTORY ON APPROACH AS A FUNCTION OF THE ENERGY TO BE REABSORBED - In the field of the calculation of the approach trajectory of an aircraft, and relating to a method for determining a corrected lateral approach trajectory as a function of the energy to be reabsorbed before the landing, and also to a flight management system making it possible to determine the corrected lateral trajectory, a method comprises: determining an energy of the aircraft E | 09-12-2013 |
20130245861 | Navigation Assistance Method for Monitoring Navigation Performance in Linear or Angular Mode - A method for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft comprises steps of calculating and displaying a linear deviation on a first linear section and an angular deviation on a second angular section. The method comprises a calculation step for converting an angular deviation into an equivalent linear deviation, and, conversely, converting a linear deviation into an equivalent angular deviation. The method comprises a step of graphic representation, called unified monitoring, intended for the crew, of a deviation of the aircraft, on a lateral deviation axis and a vertical deviation axis; each of the deviations, lateral and vertical, being able to be represented on a linear scale, an angular scale or a mixed scale. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245862 | Navigation Assistance Method Based on Anticipation of Linear or Angular Deviations - A method for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft comprises steps of calculating and displaying a linear deviation on a first linear section and an angular deviation on a second angular section. The method comprises a step of calculation of an anticipated deviation of the aircraft, expressed linearly or angularly, projected to a time DT, characteristic of a reaction time of the aircraft, and of a statistical error distribution associated with this anticipated deviation; and a step of calculation of a probability of exceeding a predetermined target deviation, by means of the anticipated deviation and of the statistical error distribution. The method also comprises a crew alert when the probability is above a predetermined threshold. | 09-19-2013 |
20130317737 | Method and Device for Determining a Shifted Circular Segment - A method and device for determining a shifted circular segment on the basis of an initial circular segment, the shifted circular segment being shifted by a shift distance, the method being implemented by a computer dedicated to flight management, comprises: determining a shifted final point terminating a shifted circular segment, on the basis of the final point terminating the initial circular segment, through a shift of the final point determined on the basis of the shift distance and in the direction of shift, through the use of a straight line passing through the centre of the initial circular segment and the final point of the initial circular segment, and determining a shifted circular segment on the basis of the initial circular segment by construction of a circular segment between the shifted final point associated with the preceding shifted segment and the shifted final point associated with the shifted segment. | 11-28-2013 |
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 |
20140012436 | METHOD FOR AIDING NAVIGATION MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO MANAGE A VERTICAL CONSTRAINT IN AN ANTICIPATED MANNER - A method for aiding navigation is provided, implemented in a flight management system, for the construction of a vertical trajectory of an aircraft following a predetermined lateral trajectory between a departure point and an arrival point; the departure point and arrival point furthermore being characterized by predefined altitudes, respectively H | 01-09-2014 |
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 |
20140200752 | Meteorological Modelling Method for Calculating an Aircraft Flight Plan - The invention relates to a meteorological modelling method for calculating an aircraft flight plan, the aircraft comprising a communication means and a navigation management system. | 07-17-2014 |