Method and device for reproducing a recorded flight mission of an aircraft from an observer position by means of a system for flight simulation

• US 20020187460A1
• Filed: 06/10/2002
• Published: 12/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eurocopter Deutschland Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS NV)
• Original Assignee: Eurocopter Deutschland Gesellschaft Mit Beschrã¤Nkter Haftung (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS NV)
• Inventors: Burlafinger, Erwin, Luttmann, Jan
• Application Number:
  US10/165,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20020187460A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/30
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/08 for teaching control of aircraft, e.g. Link trainer
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/30 Simulation of view from aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/46 the aircraft being a helicopter

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for reproducing a recorded flight mission of an aircraft, in particular a helicopter, from an observer position by means of a flight simulation system. Flight data, which are recorded by a storage medium of a simulation computer and whose purpose is reproduction, can be retrieved by the flight simulation system. Furthermore, there is a device for carrying out the method. The object of the invention is to further improve, during reproduction of a recorded flight mission, the intuitive detectability of a deviation from a desired target flight path from an observer position by means of a flight simulation system for an aircraft. The problem is solved in that the simulation computer is equipped with a program for calculating at least one virtual observer position, where the program, with its effect on a program of a display computer, can control the display computer'"'"'s help program for displaying a flight tunnel and the display computer'"'"'s help program for displaying a three-dimensional image of the aircraft so that by means of the flight simulation system, a virtual observer position with a view of the aircraft during the flight mission can be displayed.

Claims

1. A method for reproducing a recorded flight mission of an aircraft from an observer position comprising:

recording flight data on a recording medium of a simulation computer;

retrieving said flight data from said recording medium of said simulation computer;

calculating one or more virtual observer positions with a program on said simulation computer;

displaying a flight tunnel on a display device; and

displaying a three-dimensional image of said aircraft in said at least one virtual observer position on said display device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein an observer view direction and at least one of said one or more virtual observer positions are in a fixed position with respect to a specific point in an earth coordinate system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one of said one or more virtual observer positions moves along at a defined distance from said aircraft.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said observer view direction is moved in a direction of said aircraft.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one of said one or more virtual observer positions can alternate among a plurality of locations.

6. A method for reproducing a recorded flight mission of an aircraft from an observer position comprising the steps of:

recording flight data on a recording medium of a simulation computer;

retrieving said flight data from said recording medium of said simulation computer;

calculating one or more virtual observer positions with a program on said simulation computer;

displaying a flight tunnel on a display device; and

displaying a three-dimensional image of said aircraft in said at least one virtual observer position on said display device.

7. A device for reproducing a recorded flight mission of an aircraft from an observer position comprising:

a simulation computer;

a display computer;

a display unit; and

a work station.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein said display computer controls said display unit.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein said simulation computer interacts with said display computer.

10. The device of claim 7, wherein said simulation computer further comprises a storage medium and one or more programs.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein at least one of said one or more programs calculates one or more virtual observer positions.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein said display unit displays a three-dimensional image of said aircraft from at least one of said one or more virtual observer positions.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein said display computer further comprises a help program.

13. A device for reproducing a recorded flight mission of an aircraft comprising:

a simulation computer having a storage medium for storing and retrieving flight data and a program for calculating one or more virtual observer positions; and

a display computer for displaying a flight tunnel and a three-dimensional image of said aircraft from at least one of said one or more virtual observer positions.

15. A device for reproducing a recorded flight mission of an aircraft comprising:

means for storing and retrieving flight data;

means for calculating one or more virtual observer positions;

means for displaying a flight tunnel; and

means for displaying a three-dimensional image of said aircraft from at least one of said one or more virtual observer positions.