Airbus Operations Gmbh

Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Daren Payne

Nicholas Elliott

Fernando Izquierdo Civera

Simon John Cozens

Livier Ben

Julien Decronsonniere

James Cullingham

David Paviour

Alessandro Albarello

An aircraft system for an aircraft is disclosed including a controller. The controller is configured, during a take-off procedure, to initiate automatic closing of a landing gear bay door of the aircraft from an open position towards a closed position, on the basis of a determination that a predetermined door-closing criterion has been met and a command to retract a landing gear has not been received, the landing gear being arranged to retract into a landing gear bay to be at least partially covered by the landing gear bay door when the landing gear bay door is in the closed position.

Aircraft system

An aircraft system for an aircraft, the aircraft system including a controller configured, during a take-off procedure, to determine that a one engine inoperative condition is met and determine that a predetermined take-off criterion is met. The controller is configured, on the basis of a determination that the one engine inoperative condition is met, and prior to receiving a command to retract a landing gear of the aircraft, to initiate automatic opening of a landing gear bay door associated with the landing gear from a closed position towards an open position when the controller determines that the predetermined take-off criterion is met, and inhibit the automatic opening when the controller determines that the predetermined take-off criterion is not met.

An aircraft system for an aircraft is disclosed having a controller that is configured, during a take-off procedure, to initiate, prior to receiving a command to retract a landing gear, automatic opening of a landing gear bay door associated with the landing gear from a closed position towards an open position, on the basis of a determination, made when a speed of the aircraft is determined by the controller to be equal to or greater than a first threshold speed, that a one engine inoperative condition is met.

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