Airbus Operations Gmbh

Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Airbus (sas)

Utsav Oza

Kurt Bruggemann

Andrew Bill

Rob Hurley

Brice Cheray

David Joel Clarke

Rodrigo Jimenez

Maud Consola

Esther Ramirez-Paya

An aircraft brake temperature control system (BTCS) () for controlling a temperature of a brake () of a landing gear () of the aircraft (). The BTCS () includes a controller () configured to cause a thermal management system () to regulate the temperature of the brake (), on the basis of a selection of an objective for regulating the temperature of brake from a plurality of objectives (), () for regulating the temperature of the brake. An aircraft () includes the BTCS; and a method () controls a temperature of a brake of a landing gear of an aircraft.

Aircraft brake temperature control system

An aircraft brake temperature control system (BTCS)for controlling a temperature of a brakeof a landing gearof the aircraft. The BTCSincludes a controllerconfigured to cause at least one fluid moving deviceto drive a flow of fluid onto the brake, selectively in one of a plurality of modes, to control the temperature of the brake. The BTCSmay be incorporated into an aircraft systemwith at least one fluid moving device, wherein the aircraft system is on an aircraft

A braking system and a method for applying one or more aircraft wheel brakes according to at least one of a plurality of wheel brake control functions are disclosed. The method includes receiving an indication of an aircraft speed from an aircraft speed indicator, controlling a wheel braking operation of the aircraft according to at least a first wheel brake control function if the aircraft speed indicated by the aircraft speed indicator exceeds a speed threshold, and controlling the wheel braking operation of the aircraft according to at least a second wheel brake control function if the aircraft speed does not exceed the speed threshold. Also disclosed is an aircraft including one or more aircraft wheel brakes and the disclosed braking system.

Aircraft braking

An apparatus for an aircraft having one or more aircraft wheel brakes, and a brake wear sensor configured to measure a wear state of a brake of the one or more aircraft wheel brakes, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor configured to determine a wear relationship between a wear state of the brake and a number of use cycles of the brake, determine a predicted wear state of the brake based on the wear relationship; determine a number of future use cycles of the brake based on a predicted condition of the brake, the predicted condition comprising the predicted wear state of the brake; and provide an indication of the determined number of the future use cycles to ground crew and/or a pilot of the aircraft, wherein the number of future use cycles is the number of use cycles for which the brake is allowed to be used, and a use cycle comprises all uses of the brake relating to a flight undertaken by the aircraft.

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