Airbus France

Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

Airbus Corporation

Airbus Operations Gmbh

Vincent Markiton

Stéphane Dattler

François Barre

Patrice Rouquette

Jean-Louis De Menorval

Eric Peyrucain

Edward Strongman

Pascale Louise-Babando

Franck Laine

Edith Renault

Fabien Silly

Lionel Bertin

A system for piloting an aircraft during an autonomous approach for the purpose of landing. The piloting system has a flight guidance computer that directly computes, with the aid of a position indication and of information characterizing a virtual approach axis, linear deviations. Another computer computes aircraft piloting instructions using the linear deviations.

System for piloting an aircraft, at least for piloting the aircraft during an autonomous approach for the purpose of landing

Disclosed is a method and system for aiding the piloting of an aircraft to climb to a safety altitude situated above an existing low-height flight trajectory comprised of a lateral trajectory and a vertical trajectory, in which the safety altitude is the altitude of the aircraft that avoids collision of the aircraft with surrounding terrain. The aircraft is guided along the existing lateral trajectory of the low-height flight trajectory in a horizontal plane; and the aircraft is brought to the safety altitude by subjecting the aircraft to a climb mode in a vertical plane, which causes the aircraft to climb according to a climb slope which is greater than or equal to a maximum slope according to the existing vertical trajectory of the low-height flight trajectory.

Method and system for piloting an aircraft

An aircraft guidance system defines a main approach path and a corrected approach path, which has an extra vertical margin related to the ground over which the craft is flying as compared with a main approach path representing a category-1 precision approach. The guidance system guides the aircraft following the corrected approach path.

Method and device for assisting the flying of an aircraft during an autonomous approach

A method for monitoring the integrity of an aircraft position computed on board including on-board means for monitoring the aircraft position that are able to detect common-mode failures. Dissimilar computing channels of the aircraft position are utilized, the dissimilar channels being on-board in the aircraft. Each aircraft position primary computing channel is supplemented by a dissimilar computing channel, which allows the coherence of the primary aircraft position, the position computed by the primary computing channels, to be verified. Mechanisms for verifying the reliability of the results from dissimilar computing channels are implemented to limit a loss of performance from the utilization of dissimilar computing channels, which are less performing than primary computing channels.

Method for monitoring the integrity of an aircraft position computed on board

A guidance system includes a device to generate an alphanumeric identification characteristic, enabling identification of a data item which is used for a selected guidance mode of an aircraft. The system also includes a display unit which automatically shows the alphanumeric identification characteristic on a display screen.

Aircraft guidance system

A device to assist in an independent piloting of an aircraft at least in a descent phase includes a unit to determine a descent axis which assists a pilot in flying from a safe altitude to a decision height, the descent axis being secured relative to the ground being flown over, and a guidance system to assist in the guiding of the aircraft along said descent axis in a descent phase.

Method and device to assist in the piloting of an aircraft

The subject of the invention is a method of aiding the piloting of an aircraft (), which is intended to aid the piloting of the aircraft during an autonomous approach to a landing runway (P) for the purpose of landing, said aircraft comprising at least one locating means (), wherein: The invention also relates to a device for implementing this method.

Method and device for determining a decision height during an autonomous approach of an aircraft

The device comprises a means for measuring a dynamic temperature on the outside of the aircraft, a means for determining a static temperature around the aircraft, using said dynamic temperature, a means for determining, using said static temperature and a thermodynamic equation, a second temperature value corresponding to an estimated temperature at said destination altitude, a means for determining the difference between said first and second temperature values, and a means for emitting a warning signal when said difference is greater than a predetermined value.

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Vincent Markiton