Automatic flight protection system for an aircraft
First Claim
1. An automatic flight protection system for an aircraft equipped with a positioning system comprising:
- a database, accessible from the aircraft, listing prohibiting zones of penetration and a prohibited zone anti-penetration rig likening the risks of penetration into a prohibited zone to the detection of intrusions of prohibited penetration zones modeled with the help of the elements of the database, inside at least one flight safety protection envelope constructed around a position deduced from the current position of the aircraft as provided by the positioning system and automatically taking control of the aircraft in case of detection of an intrusion of a prohibited zone of penetration into the flight safety protection envelope.
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Abstract
This system ensures autonomous protection of an aircraft against deliberate crashes resulting from a malicious act of a person on board or a trajectory error. It comprises a prohibited zone anti-penetration (cons. anti-collision) rig OAPS (54) operating in the manner of a terrain anti-collision rig TAWS (51) but intervening at the level of the flight controls (12) so as to impose an avoidance trajectory on the aircraft (83) when the need therefor is felt. This prohibited zone anti-penetration (cons. anti-collision) rig OAPS (54) uses a database (60) holding information about the prohibited zones and a system for positioning (106, 306) of the aircraft (83). Supplemented with a terrain anti-collision rig TAWS (51) and a rig for protection of the limits of the flight domain FELPS (53), it makes it possible to produce a very complete flight protection system.
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1. An automatic flight protection system for an aircraft equipped with a positioning system comprising:
a database, accessible from the aircraft, listing prohibiting zones of penetration and a prohibited zone anti-penetration rig likening the risks of penetration into a prohibited zone to the detection of intrusions of prohibited penetration zones modeled with the help of the elements of the database, inside at least one flight safety protection envelope constructed around a position deduced from the current position of the aircraft as provided by the positioning system and automatically taking control of the aircraft in case of detection of an intrusion of a prohibited zone of penetration into the flight safety protection envelope. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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