Method and device for assisting the piloting of an aircraft during a parabolic flight
US9828118B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 15, 2016 |
| Grant date | Nov 28, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 15, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/0607
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A pilot assistance device includes information sources for determining automatically, in real time, a current vertical load factor of the aircraft, a computation unit for computing automatically, in real time, a flight director value using the current vertical load factor and a target vertical load factor representing a vertical load factor desired for the aircraft in the parabolic flight, the flight director value being computed in such a way as to be equal to a reference value when the current vertical load factor becomes equal to the target vertical load factor, and a display unit for presenting automatically, in real time, on a load factor scale, displayed on a screen of the cockpit of the aircraft, an indicator representative of the flight director value, computed by the computation unit, and an indicator indicating the reference value.
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