System for securing an aircraft flight plan
US8200377B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 13, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jun 12, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 10, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/1062
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The system for securing an aircraft flight plan has a flight management system delivering: a flight plan and points comprising passage setpoints in terms of speed, altitude and time; an avionics computer; at least one resource for storing environmental data constituting a hazard for the aircraft; a performance model of the aircraft defining limiting flight conditions according to the performance capabilities of said aircraft; at least one resource for processing the aircraft's avoidance trajectories. It makes it possible, based on a sampling of points of the flight plan, to calculate a set of avoidance trajectories and correlate them with the environmental data in order to detect the engagement points requiring a corrective maneuver.
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