Display of aircraft altitude

US9989378B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Airbus Defence and Space GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Christoph Vernaleken · Eiterfeld, DE
• Marco Opitz · Rohrbach, DE
• Harald Neujahr · Borgo San Lazzaro, DE
• Eugénio Ferreira · Toulouse, FR
• Lutz Broszio · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 15, 2014
• Grant date: Jun 5, 2018
• Expiry date: Jan 15, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01C23/00
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for displaying an attitude of an aircraft includes receiving a roll angle, a pitch angle and a yaw angle of the aircraft, generating a display image indicating the roll angle, the pitch angle and the yaw angle, and displaying the display image on a display device. The display image includes a spherical shell with a track angle scale projected onto the spherical shell along a latitude line of the spherical shell and with a pitch angle scale projected onto the spherical shell along a longitude line of the spherical shell. Furthermore, the display image includes a graphical aircraft attitude indicator inside the spherical shell rotated with respect to the spherical shell such that the graphical aircraft attitude indicator indicates the roll angle, the pitch angle and the yaw angle of the aircraft with respect to the spherical shell.