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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2003
Applicant:
Jean-christophe Jaillant, Tournefeuille, FR;
Inventor:
Jean-Christophe Jaillant, Tournefeuille, FR;
Assignee:
Thales, , FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to an aircraft navigation aid method. It comprises steps of computing a feeler line ground path that the aircraft would follow if a turn at the maximum rate applicable to the current flight phase of the aircraft were to begin at that instant, and displaying on a navigation screen the feeler line and a ground path to be captured, in order to determine how to place the aircraft in a turn in order to optimize the capture of the path to be captured