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Method and device for assisting the flying of an aircraft during an autonomous approach

US8019495B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

Airbus France · FR
AIRBUS · FR

Inventors

Vincent Markiton · Fonsorbes, FR
Edward Strongman · Colomiers, FR
Francois Barre · Plaisance-du-Touch, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 10, 2007
Grant date	Sep 13, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 15, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG08G5/54
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An aircraft guidance system defines a main approach path and a corrected approach path, which has an extra vertical margin related to the ground over which the craft is flying as compared with a main approach path representing a category-1 precision approach. The guidance system guides the aircraft following the corrected approach path.

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