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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2009
Laure Christophe, Colomiers, FR;
Garance Raynaud, Cornebarrieu, FR;
Nicolas Caule, Toulouse, FR;
Andre Marques, Cugnaux, FR;
Jean-michel Merle, Veille-Toulouse, FR;
Laure Christophe, Colomiers, FR;
Garance Raynaud, Cornebarrieu, FR;
Nicolas Caule, Toulouse, FR;
Andre Marques, Cugnaux, FR;
Jean-Michel Merle, Veille-Toulouse, FR;
Airbus Operations SAS, Toulouse, FR;
Airbus, Blagnac, FR;
Abstract
A method for monitoring the flight of an aircraft using two navigation screens respectively dedicated to a pilot and to a copilot of the aircraft is provided. The method includes displaying on the screens, depending on the choice of the pilot and the copilot, at least information relating to the following of terrain by the aircraft or information relating to meteorological conditions that the aircraft encounters during the flight, triggering at least one warning representative of hazardous meteorological conditions detected by the meteorological radar and liable to be encountered by the aircraft while the navigation screens of the pilot and copilot simultaneously are displaying the terrain-following information, wherein the at least one warning is triggered when the information relating to the hazardous meteorological conditions is located in a predetermined volume relative to the aircraft, and displaying the warning on at least one of the navigation screens.