Aircraft navigation aid device

• US 8,219,307 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2008
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Valex, Laurent, Bourdais, André, Sauvalle, Thomas, Peyrucain, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): CULBRETH, ERIC D
• Application Number:
  US12/595,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20100145605A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,555 Days
• Field of Search: 701/120, 701/528, 340/971
• US Class Current: 701/120
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0021 located in the aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/065 Navigation or guidance aids, e.g. for taxiing or rolling

Abstract

An aircraft navigation aid device includes at least one flight management system, an airport navigation aid unit which is incorporated in this flight management system, and a common interface unit.

Claims

1. An aircraft navigation aid device, said device comprising:

a flight management system which comprises

flight management means; and

airport navigation aid means incorporated in said flight management system; and

interface means which are common to said flight management means and said airport navigation aid means, wherein said interface means comprises;

data input means enabling an operator to enter data into said flight management system; and

at least one display screen configured to present information,

wherein said device further comprises navigation and guidance functions that are common to said flight management means and said airport navigation aid means and which enable creation of a complete trajectory from a departure parking point to an arrival parking point from one airport to another.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising at least one common data base which comprises both in-flight navigation data and airport data.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said at least one common data base is incorporated in said flight management system.

4. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said at least one common data base is incorporated in a data baser server which is linked by a single data transmission link to said flight management system, said data transmission link for transmission of both in-flight navigation data and airport data.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an incorporated maintenance device which is common to said flight management means and said airport navigation aid means.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said flight management system comprises a prediction function used on the ground to enable a pilot to know a taxiing time.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising data link means which are common to said flight management means and said airport navigation aid means.

8. An aircraft, comprising a navigation aid device as specified in claim 1.