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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2012
Airbus Operations S.a.s., Toulouse Cedex, FR;
Ecole Nationale DE L'aviation Civile (E.n.a.c.), Toulouse, FR;
Pierre Neri, Tournefeuille, FR;
Laurent Azoulai, Mondonville, FR;
Jean Muller, Tournefeuille, FR;
Christophe Macabiau, Montauban, FR;
Abstract
A method for guiding an aircraft during its final approach to a landing runway, whereby the aircraft is guided during its approach by aircraft position information obtained from an GNSS satellite navigation system, wherein: prior to the start of the final approach a first time tis determined corresponding with the start of said final approach and a second time tcorresponding with the landing of the aircraft on said runway, then a set of satellites is determined of the satellite navigation system for excluding from the calculation of said aircraft position information during at least a part of the time interval comprised between said first and second times; and during the final approach, the aircraft position information is determined while excluding the information corresponding with all the satellites of said set of satellites and the aircraft is guided along its final approach path by said position information.