Method and device for aiding the management of the flight of an aircraft
US8880245B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 1, 2013 |
| Grant date | Nov 4, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 1, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/042
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The device comprises servocontrol means which automatically control, in a combined manner, an automatic thrust system of the aircraft and airbrakes of the aircraft, as a supplement to usual means for steering the vertical trajectory, so that the aircraft attains a speed setpoint and/or altitude setpoint, at the location defined by a geographical constraint.
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