METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN AERONAUTICAL FLIGHT PLAN COMPRISING A STEP OF FLIGHT DATA CONFIGURATION

• US 20140156114A1
• Filed: 10/31/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thales SA
• Original Assignee: Thales SA
• Inventors: Aymeric, Bruno, Le Roux, Yannick, Andre, Ccile, Michel, Franois
• Granted Patent: US 9,202,381 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 23/00 Combined instruments indicating more than one navigational value, e.g. for aircraft; Combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement, e.g. distance, speed or acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0021 located in the aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/003 Flight plan management
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0034 Assembly of a flight plan
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0039 Modification of a flight plan

Abstract

The general field of the invention is that of methods of graphic representation, modification and validation of an aeronautical flight plan for an aircraft avionics system. The system comprises means for computing and generating said flight plan, a task management system, a visualization device displaying a graphic representation of said flight plan and a man-machine interface suitable for making selections, modifications or additions to the information contained in said graphic representation, said selections, modifications and additions being taken into account by the task management system, said graphic representation containing a timeline on which feature at least the various phases of the flight plan and the information corresponding to said phases. The method according to the invention contains a step of displaying at least one item of information depending on several parameters and the graphic representation of which depends on the level of available information about said parameters.

Claims

1. Method of graphic representation, modification and validation of an aeronautical flight plan for an aircraft avionics system, said system comprising means for computing and generating said flight plan, a system for managing the tasks necessary to the performance of said flight plan, a visualization device displaying a graphic representation of said flight plan and a man-machine interface suitable for making selections, modifications or additions to the information contained in said graphic representation, said selections, modifications and additions being taken into account by the task management system, said graphic representation containing a timeline on which feature at least the various phases of the flight plan and the information corresponding to said phases,

wherein the method contains an operation of displaying at least one item of information depending on several parameters and the graphic representation of which depends on the level of available information about said parameters, said parameters being classed into three categories:

Absolutely Necessary;

wherein if this parameter is absent, the item of information is not computed;

Necessary;

wherein if this parameter is absent, a default value is used and the item of information is represented in shaded form;

Optional;

wherein if this parameter is absent, a default value is used and the item of information is represented in the normal way.

2. Method of graphic representation, modification and validation of an aeronautical flight plan for an aircraft avionics system according to claim 1, wherein the information being displayed in the form of a text composed of alphanumeric characters, the contrast and/or the colour and/or the size of the alphanumeric characters depends on said level of available information about these said parameters.

3. Method of graphic representation, modification and validation of an aeronautical flight plan according to claim 2, wherein the selection of said information by means of the man-machine interface leads to the opening of a graphic window containing the list of names of the parameters to inform, said parameters being able to be validated, modified or completed by means of the man-machine interface.

4. Method of graphic representation, modification and validation of an aeronautical flight plan according to claim 1, wherein the man-machine interface is a touch-sensitive surface arranged on the visualization device.