Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Airbus Operations Gmbh

Jean Guilhamet

Jean-Claude Mere

Sylvain Raynaud

Thomas Pastre

Saskia Dege

Stéphane Gauthier

Svenja Jegminat

Fabien Perrin

Jerome Treanton

Marie-Claire Pineri

Aeron Charles Jones

Frank Nienaber

Marina Giuseppin

Christophe Guillon

Ewen Le Floch

Lionel Afchard

Stéphane Bouchon

Pierre Bizet

Sophie Royer

An aircraft with a unit to transmit information on ability/inability of pilots to fly the aircraft. Guidance avionics include guidance architecture and a flight controller to fly the aircraft. The guidance architecture has two dissimilar guidance chains and a selection unit connected thereto, to the flight controller and to the unit for measuring physical ability/inability, a first guidance chain to compute a main path for the aircraft towards a destination airport based on a current state of the aircraft by following a flight plan and to compute main guidance instructions for following the main path, a second guidance chain to compute an emergency path for the aircraft towards a diversion airport based on an initial portion of the common path with the main path and to compute emergency guidance instructions for following the emergency path. The selection unit receives the main and emergency guidance instructions and transmits either one to the flight controller.

Aircraft comprising a flight management architecture

A method and system for protecting an aircraft against an incoherent command instruction. The system has a generation unit generating a command instruction transmitted to an evaluation unit that evaluates whether or not the command instruction is incoherent and generates and transmits a validation order if the command instruction is coherent or an arbitration request if not, the arbitration request being transmitted by an arbitration unit, where applicable, to an operator who sends a confirmation response or a cancellation response. The arbitration unit generates and transmits a validation order to an execution unit in the event of receiving a confirmation response and a cancellation order in the event of receiving a cancellation response, the system allowing the execution unit to execute only the command instructions evaluated and confirmed as not being incoherent.

Method and system for protecting an aircraft against an incoherent command instruction

A method to control folding of a wing tip section about a fixed base wing section by a control system that automatically determines whether: (i) a command signal is received to fold the wing tip section, (ii) a first condition indicating signal indicates that the aircraft is on the ground; (iii) the current speed of the aircraft is no greater than a preset maximum speed, and (iv) the aircraft is not at gate in an airport.

Method and a control unit for controlling actuation of a foldable wing tip section of a wing of an aircraft

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Jean Guilhamet