Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Airbus France

Societe Anonyme Dite: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle

Daniel Ferro

Mathieu Hiale-Guilhamou

Michel Colin

Philippe Haas

Vincent Lautridou

Jerome Chaptal

Fulgence Rollet

Machiel Van Boven

Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois Lafon

Amelie David

A method of creating at least one flight plan of an aircraft includes entering a creation objective which illustrates a type and general characteristics of the flight plan to be created, automatically generating a flight plan outline, automatically generating a targeted request for information relating to missing parameters, entering the requested information relating to the missing parameters, and supplementing automatically the flight plan outline and automatically deleting any discontinuities to create, in a definitive manner, the flight plan.

Method and device for creating an aircraft flight plan

Aiding preparation and management of aircraft missions includes receiving digital data including avionic type data and open-world type data and comparing the digital data with a set of stored data. When at least one item of the digital data differs from an equivalent item in the set of stored data, a change indicator is generated for at least one parameter of the aircraft. In response to a command accepting the change of the at least one parameter, item of digital data, that differs from the equivalent item in the set of stored data, is stored.

Method and device for assisting in the preparation and management of missions in an aircraft

A method for processing a request message received in an aircraft, from air control, via a data transmission system, includes the identification of a type of request contained in the received message and the extraction of parameters associated with the type of request identified. The method further includes steps of determining flight characteristics to be calculated according to the type of request identified and the said associated parameters; selecting at least one calculation module, from among a predetermined set of calculation modules, according to the determined flight characteristics to be calculated; calculating flight characteristics with at least one selected calculation module, and obtaining calculation results; and creating a draft for response to the said request from the calculation results obtained.

Method and device for processing a request message received in an aircraft, from ground control, via a data transmission system

A method and a device for an operating center for aiding in the preparation and management of missions of an aircraft. After a plurality of digital data has been received, the plurality of data comprising at least one datum of avionic type and one datum of open-world type, at least one flight plan is prepared from the plurality of data. The at least one prepared flight plan and the at least one datum of open-world type then are formatted. The formatted data in the form of an electronic document usable directly by a computer system of the aircraft are transmitted to the aircraft.

Support method and device for assisting in the preparation and management of missions in aircraft

A system of assistance in the entry of flight data for an aircraft transmitted between a crew on board the aircraft and a ground staff including, a radiofrequency communications link to transmit flight data between the crew and the ground staff. At least one means of sending and one means of receiving data on board the aircraft, wherein the system includes a voice recognition means capable of detecting a piece of data of a predefined type emitted, during the communications call, by the crew or the ground staff and a means of analysis and transcription of this piece of data in digital or alphanumeric form.

Method and system for the entry of flight data for an aircraft, transmitted between a crew on board the aircraft and ground staff

A device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft. The device automatically determines when an engine failure is detected, vectoring settings including speed, thrust and altitude settings designed to be implemented on the aircraft in such a manner as to allow it to fly to a particular airport.

Device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft

An interconnecting apparatus for interconnecting a pilot station of an aircraft to at least one aircraft zone includes a device for communicating between the pilot station and the aircraft zone. The aircraft zone includes a device permitting a person present in the aircraft zone to identify themselves and a display device indicating a functional status of the aircraft. The pilot station includes a display device indicating a location of each person being identified in the aircraft zone.

Apparatus for interconnecting a pilot station to at least one other aircraft zone, cockpit and aircraft equipped with such an apparatus

A navigation system for an aircraft, including a calculator of an estimated flight path for the aircraft; a device for determining an estimated value of a flight parameter that corresponds to an estimated speed for the extension of at least a portion of the high-lift devices of the aircraft; and a display of an indication for such estimated value. A command process for such a system and an aircraft equipped with such a system are also disclosed.

Navigation system for an aircraft and associated command process

A device and method for assisting in the management of an engine failure on an aircraft: (1) determine, when an engine failure occurs, flight profiles allowing the closest airports to be reached according to flight strategies and (2) present, on a screen, the airports associated with the determined flight profiles and corresponding predictions.

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Daniel Ferro