Method and device for assisting the piloting of an aircraft from a voluminous set of memory-stored documents
First Claim
1. A method for assisting the piloting of an aerodyne and implemented by a system including a processor, at least one man/machine communication terminal comprising a display screen and control and data entry keys and memories where are stored in particular all data useful to operating a flight and that required to conduct a flight in accordance with air regulations, the system being connected to other items of electronic equipment embarked on the aerodyne, wherein said method includes the following stages:
- entering and classifying said data in the memories in the form of a data base in which links are established between each of possible contexts of said aerodyne and data most suitably adapted to said context, each of said links being associated with an order of relevance with respect to the linked context, the operator being provided by the terminal with first means for exploiting these data;
acquiring in real time by said processor all data sent by said other items of electronic equipment, said sent data determining a current context of said aerodyne;
preselecting by said processor from the data base the data which are linked to the current context and classifying said preselected data by using said orders of relevance associated with said links;
providing the operator through said terminal with second means for exploiting the preselected classified data;
selecting by the operator one of the exploitation means and one portion of said preselected data; and
exploiting on the display screen by the operator the portion of the preselected data with the aid of the selected exploitation means.
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Abstract
A method for assisting the piloting of an aircraft from a voluminous set of memory-stored documents which uses a processor associated with a terminal comprising a screen and control and data entry keys and with memories containing useful information for operating a flight, the processor being connected to other items of equipment of the aerodyne. The method comprises storing of information in a data base and supplying first exploitation functions of this information, real-time acquisition by the processor of an event relative to the current situation of the aerodyne and analyzing the new situation generated by the occurrence of this event, preselecting the information in the data base best adapted to the new situation, and classifying same by order of relevance, supplying second exploitation functions of the preselected information, selection and exploitation, by the operator, of one of the exploitation functions. The method applies in particular to the civil and commercial aviation.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for assisting the piloting of an aerodyne and implemented by a system including a processor, at least one man/machine communication terminal comprising a display screen and control and data entry keys and memories where are stored in particular all data useful to operating a flight and that required to conduct a flight in accordance with air regulations, the system being connected to other items of electronic equipment embarked on the aerodyne, wherein said method includes the following stages:
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entering and classifying said data in the memories in the form of a data base in which links are established between each of possible contexts of said aerodyne and data most suitably adapted to said context, each of said links being associated with an order of relevance with respect to the linked context, the operator being provided by the terminal with first means for exploiting these data; acquiring in real time by said processor all data sent by said other items of electronic equipment, said sent data determining a current context of said aerodyne; preselecting by said processor from the data base the data which are linked to the current context and classifying said preselected data by using said orders of relevance associated with said links; providing the operator through said terminal with second means for exploiting the preselected classified data; selecting by the operator one of the exploitation means and one portion of said preselected data; and exploiting on the display screen by the operator the portion of the preselected data with the aid of the selected exploitation means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A device for assisting the piloting of an aerodyne, comprising:
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a processor connected to other items of electronic equipment embarked on the aerodyne for acquiring in real time data relating to a current context of the aerodyne, at least one man/machine communication terminal connected to the processor and comprising a display screen and control and data entry keys, and memories accessible by the processor where all data useful and required to conduct a flight in accordance with air regulations is stored in the form of a data base in which links are established between each of possible contexts of said aerodyne and data most suitably adapted to said context, each of said links being associated with an order of relevance with respect to the linked context, the processor including; first means for exploiting the data of the data base, means for storing and updating said data related to the current context of the aerodyne, means for preselecting in the data base the data which are linked to said current context and for classifying said preselected data by using said orders of relevance associated with said links, second means for exploiting the classified preselected data.
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21. A man/machine communication terminal for assisting the piloting of an aerodyne, connected to a system comprising:
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a processor connected to other items of electronic equipment embarked on the aerodyne for acquiring in real time data relating to a current context of the aerodyne, memories accessible by the processor where in particular all the information useful for the conducting of a flight and data useful and required to conduct a flight in accordance with air regulations is stored in the form of a data base in which links are established between each of possible contexts of said aerodyne and data most suitably adapted to said context, each of said links being associated with an order of relevance with respect to the linked context, the processor including; first means for exploiting the data of the data base, means for storing and updating said data related to the current context of the aerodyne, means for preselecting in the data base the data which linked to said current context, and means for classifying said preselected data by using said orders of relevance associated with said links, and second means for exploiting the classified preselected data, wherein said terminal comprises a display screen and keys for entering information and carrying out commands, said keys being divided at the periphery of the screen into four sets of successive keys, a first set being allocated to activation of the exploitation means, a second set to carry out selections when a menu is displayed on the screen, a third set being allocated to management functions of the terminal, and a fourth set to display last selections made by the operator and reactivate said last selections, said keys being reconfigurable according to a page displayed on the screen and each being associated with an adjacent zone of the screen where the function allocated to it is displayed. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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