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US 2010/0161156 A1Published application
Device for assisting in the choice of a diversion airport
AssigneeThales
InventorsFrançois Coulmeau, Christophe Caillaud, Jérôme Sacle
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AssigneeThales
InventorsFrançois Coulmeau, Christophe Caillaud, Jérôme Sacle
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The invention relates to a device for assisting in the choice of a diversion airport for an aircraft piloted by a crew (200), said aircraft comprising a flight management system including location means (207) calculating the position of the aircraft, said device comprising a navigation database (202) and a performance database (203) of the aircraft, said device being characterized in that it comprises: a company database (201) comprising airports and characteristics of said airports, means (205) of calculating a list of airports, called candidate airports, from the airports in the company database, from the navigation database and from the selected characteristics by the crew, means (204) for calculating remaining flight time and fuel consumption predictions for each of the candidate airports from the position of the aircraft, from weather conditions and from the performance database, an interface giving the favoured airports for diversion according to pre-established criteria or determined in real time using the interface.
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Device for assisting in the choice of a diversion airport for an aircraft piloted by a crew, said aircraft comprising a flight management system including location means calculating the position of the aircraft, said device comprising a navigation database and a performance database of the aircraft, said device comprising:
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