Method and device for constructing a vertical profile for a descent and/or an approach of an aircraft
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsJaouad BERRAJAA, Virginie LE GALL, Alexandre BUISSON
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Abstract
This relates to a method and device for constructing a vertical profile for an aircraft descent and/or approach. The construction device comprises a data-capture unit configured to provide, for at least one of a plurality of parameters, a value relating to a user strategy. A construction unit is configured to automatically construct a vertical profile for an aircraft descent and/or approach, using the value thus provided.
Claims12
A method of constructing a vertical profile for an aircraft descent and/or approach, the method comprising a first set of steps and a second set of steps, the first set of steps using values of a plurality of reference parameters, the first set of steps comprising:
- providing, for at least one of a plurality of red to as strategic parameters, a value relating to a user strategy, said strategic parameters corresponding to at least some of said reference parameters, the values of a parameter corresponding to all the possible options offered for setting this parameter;
- and
- in automatically constructing said vertical profile using the value thus provided,
- the method additionally comprising a second set of steps carried out during a flight of the aircraft and comprising:
- a) presenting the crew of the aircraft with the values of a plurality of parameters referred to as tactical parameters, which have been used to calculate the vertical profile, the tactical parameters corresponding to at least some of said reference parameters;
- b) modifying at least one of said tactical-parameter values presented in step a);
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- c) automatically reconstructing the vertical profile using the value modified in step b).
A device for constructing a vertical profile for an aircraft descent and/or approach, said device comprising:
- a construction unit configured to construct a vertical profile using values of a plurality of reference parameters;
- a data capture unit configured to provide, for at least one of a plurality of parameters referred to as strategic parameters, a value relating to a user strategy, the strategic parameters corresponding to at least some of the reference parameters, the values of a parameter corresponding to all the possible options offered for setting this parameter, the construction unit being configured to automatically construct the vertical profile using the value thus provided;
- a display unit configured to present the crew, during a flight of the aircraft, with the values of a plurality of parameters referred to as tactical parameters, which are used to calculate the vertical profile, the tactical parameters corresponding to at least some of the reference parameters;
- an auxiliary data-capture unit configured to allow the crew to modify at least one of the tactical-parameter values presented by the display unit;
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- an auxiliary construction unit configured to automatically reconstruct the vertical profile using the value or values modified using the auxiliary data-capture unit.
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A method of constructing a vertical profile for an aircraft descent and/or approach, the method comprising a first set of steps and a second set of steps, the first set of steps using values of a plurality of reference parameters, the first set of steps comprising:
- providing, for at least one of a plurality of strategic parameters, a value relating to a user strategy, the strategic parameters corresponding to at least some of the reference parameters, the value of a parameter corresponding to all the possible options offered for setting this parameter;
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- in automatically constructing the vertical profile using the value thus provided, a second set of steps carried out during a flight of the aircraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.