Method and device for assisting in the locating of aircraft
AssigneeThales
InventorsLaurence MUTUEL, Benoît COUTURIER
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Abstract
A method for assisting in the locating of a first aircraft includes a step of emission by the first aircraft of an identifier and of a time-stamped position reading, said method further including: the reception and the storage by at least one second aircraft of the identifier and of the time-stamped position reading, and the downloading by the second aircraft, after its landing, of the identifiers and of the time-stamped position readings to a database on the ground, and, in case of disappearance of the first aircraft, the determination of the last known position of the first aircraft based on the time-stamped position readings stored in the database on the ground.
Claims7
A method for assisting in the locating of a first aircraft emitting an identifier and a time-stamped position reading, said method comprising:
- reception and storage by at least one second aircraft of the identifier and of the time-stamped position reading, and
- downloading by the second aircraft, after its landing, of the identifiers and of the time-stamped position readings to a database on the ground, and
- in case of disappearance of the first aircraft, determination of a last known position of the first aircraft based on the time-stamped position readings stored in the database on the ground.
A device for assisting in the locating of a first aircraft having means onboard the first aircraft of emitting an identifier and a time-stamped position reading, said device comprising:
- means for reception and means for storage, onboard a second aircraft, of the identifier and of the time-stamped position reading, and
- means for downloading by the second aircraft, after its landing, of the identifiers and of the time-stamped position readings to a database on the ground,
- means for determining a last known position of the first aircraft, in case of disappearance of said first aircraft, on the basis of the time-stamped position readings stored in the database on the ground.
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