Dassault Electronique

Thomson Csf Detexis

Hugues Meunier

Gerard Lepere

Eric Leonardi

Christophe Roger

Vincent Gauge

A working memory contains a local altimetric map defining an altitude envelope of the terrain in the vicinity of the aircraft. A vertical limit path of the aircraft is established, on the basis of status indications and selected flight parameters, in the vertical surface containing the axis of its path. A first comparison is undertaken between this vertical limit path and the corresponding part of the altitude envelope, so as to determine a hazard of a vertical collision with the ground, and an alarm can be established according to the result of this first comparison. A lateral limit path of the aircraft on one side of the vertical of the flight path is also established on the basis of the status indications and selected parameters. A second comparison is made between this lateral limit path and the corresponding part of the altitude envelope. The alarm means are arranged to modify at least one of the alarm statuses relating to the first comparison, if the second comparison means do not indicate a hazard of a collision with the ground. The same is done on the other side with another lateral limit path.

Airborne terrain collision prevention device with prediction of turns

A landing aid device comprises processing means, which receive aircraft path data, and data regarding the position of at least one runway towards which the aircraft is steering. These processing means comprise calculation means which supply a state signal, comprising at least one condition which is dependent on the path data and on the runway data, this function being chosen so as to express the fact that the path of the aircraft converges towards the runway.

Landing aid device, especially for anti-ground-collision alert vetoing

A device for aiding aerial navigation, carried on board an aircraft, receives on an input, status indications representing its spatial position and its velocity vector, and stores a 3D representation of the relief overflown. It comprises processing define, as a function of the status indications, an exploration sector referred to the aircraft, and calculate in this sector a contour as a function of the intersection of this sector with the relief, with a view to the displaying thereof. The sector is defined by a sheet of trajectory lines obtained on the basis of the velocity vector and of auxiliary vectors calculated by shifting the velocity vector of the aircraft according to a chosen angular scanning law.

Terrain anti-collision process and device for aircraft, with improved

The data-recording device comprises: a temporary safety electronic-technology medium (MEM), on which the data (D) coming from the interface (IT) are recorded temporarily, in succession, as they are received. Particular means (AC, TH) acquire at least one selected quantity relating to a predetermined environmental or operating condition of the recording device or of at least one its constituent components and supply a datum (A0, T0) representative of the said quantity acquired. The control unit (UT) comprises a recording mode in which the quantity (A0, T0) acquired is compared with at least one predetermined value (A2, T2) and, when a quantity acquired is greater than the said predetermined value, access to the recording medium of magneto-optical technology (DIS) is not authorized, whereas, when a quantity acquired is less than or equal to the said predetermined value, the data stored temporarily on the temporary safety medium (MEM) are recorded on the recording medium (DIS), as long as access to the said recording medium is authorized.

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Les Essarts le Roi, France

Hugues Meunier