Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Stéphane Bostetter

Maxime Wachenheim

Boris Kozlow

Alexandre Lanoix

Method and device for aiding the guidance of an aircraft having to comply with at least one time constraint. The device can determine and present on a screen of the flight deck an offset in distance (&#x394;D) between the aircraft (AC) and a reference aircraft (Aref) which is defined to fly along the flight plan (TV) at an optimal speed to comply with the time constraint.

Method and a device for aiding the guidance of an aircraft

A time constraint checking device performs a method for checking whether an aircraft is able to fulfill a plurality of successive time constraints corresponding to required times of arrival at a plurality of corresponding waypoints. The method includes comparing, for each of the waypoints, a comparison value depending on the time constraint with either an estimated time of arrival or minimum and maximum possible times of arrival based on speeds of the aircraft. The method performs different comparisons depending on whether the time constraints for a particular waypoint are a single time value or a time window, and an optimized time of arrival for meeting all future time constraints is also possible.

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Toulouse, France

Stéphane Bostetter