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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2011
Ute Marita Meissner, Cologne, DE;
Klaus-uwe Hahn, Wendeburg, DE;
Ute Marita Meissner, Cologne, DE;
Klaus-Uwe Hahn, Wendeburg, DE;
Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V., Cologne, DE;
Frau Ute Marita Meissner, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a flight guidance system for the flight support of a aircraft (), said system comprising a plurality of fixed ground stations (to) respectively comprising a transmitting and/or receiving unit (to), and at least one transmitting and/or receiving unit () that is arranged on the aircraft (), the transmitting units being act up to send position signals () and the receiving units being set up to receive said position signals (). The flight guidance system comprises at least one position determination unit () that is connected to at least some of the transmitting and/or receiving units (toto) and set up to determine locations of the transmitting and/or receiving unit () arranged on the aircraft, according to the position signals () that are sent by the fixed transmitting units and received by the at least one receiving unit arranged on the aircraft and/or sent by the at least one transmitting nail arranged on the aircraft and received by the fixed receiving units. The flight guidance system is designed for flight support of the aircraft according to the determined locations.