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Process for displaying flying aid symbols on a screen on board an aircraft

US5289185A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 30, 1991
Grant dateFeb 22, 1994
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Expiry dateAug 30, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01C23/005
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for the display on a screen on board an aircraft of flying aid symbols. On the basis of information supplied by an inertial system and ground beacons processed by an on board computer, the process consists of displaying on an on board screen (EV) symbols more particularly representing the wings of the aircraft (A1, A2), the model of the aircraft (CP), its speed (V), the tendency to acceleration and deceleration (AD1, AD2), a flight path prediction (PT), the artificial horizon (H), the roll angle (.phi.), the sideslip (AL) and the total energy (ET1, ET2). It also consists of displaying the flight path to be followed in perspective (P1, P2, S3, S4, S5) and in projection (S'1 to S'5) on the plane of the runway. Any flight path segment during passage, as well as the segment following the latter are displayed in parallelepipedic form (P1, P2) in perspective. A final segment preceding the touchdown point of the wheels on the runway is displayed in the form of a pyramid (P3) in perspective. A display also takes place of the runway (P) and a grid (M1, M2, PE1, PE2) superimposed on said runway, in perspective.

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