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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2009
François Coulmeau, Seilh, FR;
Nicolas Marty, Saint Sauveur, FR;
Alain Cordonnier, Pompignac, FR;
Thales, , FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of methods and systems for optimizing the locating of an aircraft in airports and, more particularly, in the take-off and landing phases, and notably in the air-ground and ground-air transition phases. The method of optimizing the locating of an aircraft during the take-off or landing phase comprising a transition step (), the latter being defined between two events (A, AS), the first event being a condition of contact between the aircraft and the runway and the second event being a threshold condition defining a stabilized flight phase, is wherein the transition step () comprises the determination of at least one 'transition position' of the aircraft by a weighting between the 'ground position' (LOC_SOL) determined by the ground locating system and the “flight position” (LOV_VOL) determined by the in-flight locating system.