Method for collecting operational data of an aircraft

A method for collecting operational data from an aircraft, the aircraft comprising at least one display screen for operational data of the aircraft, the method comprising:

• using a mobile terminal equipped with at least one optical sensor, images of said at least one display screen are acquired in such a way that at least some of the acquired images represent operational data displayed on the display screen;
• using an optical character recognition (OCR) module associated with said mobile terminal, character strings each representative of one piece of said operational data displayed on the display screen are identified in the acquired images;
• using a report generation module and said identified character strings, an electronic report is generated containing at least some of said operational data of the aircraft;
• the mobile terminal being functionally linked to a database containing several predetermined electronic report templates, each predetermined report template corresponding to a given aircraft type itself identifiable via the identification information of that aircraft, the report generation module being arranged so that upon receipt of the identification information (ID) of the aircraft of which data is to be collected, it obtains from the database a given electronic report template corresponding to that aircraft, the electronic report generated by the report generation module being generated from the report template obtained from the database.