Method for managing the wheel steering control of an aircraft
AssigneeMessier-Bugatti
InventorDavid Frank
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for managing a steering control of an aircraft landing gear provided with at least one wheel steerable by the steering control, comprising the following steps: monitoring one or several taxi parameter(s) (51, 54, 64, 59, 61) of the aircraft to determine whether said aircraft enters a towing situation, setting the steering control in a free steering mode of the steerable wheel, if the aircraft enters the towing situation; activating the steering control so that the steerable wheel has an angular controlled steering by the steering control if the aircraft leaves said towing situation.
Claims10
A method for managing a steering control of an aircraft landing gear having at least one wheel steerable by said steering control, which is operated by a computer, comprising the following steps:
- monitoring at least one taxi parameter of the aircraft to determine whether the aircraft enters or leaves a towing situation;
- Automatically deactivating the steering control, by setting the steering control in a free steering mode of the steerable wheel, in response to the aircraft entering said towing situation;
- Automatically reactivating the steering control by setting the steering control into an active mode so that the steerable wheel has an angular steering controlled by the steering control in response to the aircraft leaving said towing situation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.