Contextual aid to flight management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9530322-B2
Application number	US-201514862431-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2015
Priority date	Sep 26, 2014
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

A method implemented by computer for the management of the flight of an aircraft comprises the steps of receiving flight directives and flight information associated with these directives; determining a flight context of the aircraft; as a function of the context determined, selecting information from among that associated with the formulation of a directive and/or with a current flight directive and/or with a change of a flight directive; sensorially restoring the selected information. Various developments are described, notably links to documentary resources, the determination of anomalies, the use of predefined logic rules and configuration options. System aspects and software aspects are described.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method implemented by computer configured to perform a management of a flight of an aircraft, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving flight directives and flight information associated with the flight directives, a flight directive being of navigation/positioning type, and/or of guidance type in a horizontal/vertical plane and/or of speed/thrust type, the flight directive being received from a flight management system (FMS);
determining a flight context of the aircraft;
selecting, as a function of the said flight context determined, information from among information associated with the formulation of a directive and/or with a current flight directive and/or with a change of the flight directive; and
sensorially restoring the selected information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , the flight information comprising information associated with a formulation of one or more flight directives and/or information associated with a state of systems of the aircraft and/or information associated with an environment of the aircraft.

3. The method according to claim 1 , the step of sensorially restoring the selected information comprising:
a step of graphically displaying one or more items of information from among (a) a speed, (b) a thrust, (c) a flight phase directive, (d) a directive in terms of slope, (e) a ceiling or a floor, (e) a flight criterion, (f) an aerodynamic configuration, and (g) a flight procedure.

4. The method according to claim 1 , the method furthermore comprising a step of providing a link to a resource in relation to a selected directive.

5. The method according to claim 1 , the method further comprising:
steps of:
determining an anomaly in the flight of the aircraft and/or in a state of systems of the aircraft; and
soliciting a pilot's attention.

6. The method according to claim 1 , the flight context being determined in a manner repeated over time.

7. The method according to claim 1 , the step of determining the flight context comprising applying predefined logic rules.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of sensorially restoring the selected information being performed in a visual and/or an auditory and/or a tactile and/or a vibratory manner.

9. The method according to claim 1 , the step of sensorially restoring information comprising the application of predefined logic rules.

10. The method according to claim 1 , the step of selecting information being configurable.

11. A non-volatile computer program comprising code instructions for carrying out the steps of the method according to claim 1 when said computer program is executed on a suitable computer device.

12. A system comprising the computer for carrying out the steps of the method according to claim 1 .

13. The system according to claim 12 , comprising a principal flight screen (PFD) and/or a navigation screen (ND/VD) and/or a multifunction screen (MFD).

14. The system according to claim 11 , comprising avionic means of Flight Management System type and/or means of Electronic Flight Bag type and/or means of augmented and/or virtual reality.

Assignees

• Thales Sa

Inventors

• Caudron Bertrand
• Vautier Sonia
• Mazoyer Patrick

Classifications

• G08G5/54

  for approach or landing · CPC title

• G08G5/55

  for a single aircraft · CPC title

• G08G5/53

  for cruising · CPC title

• G08G5/52

  for take-off · CPC title

• G08G5/50

  Navigation or guidance aids · CPC title