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Method for monitoring the flight of an aircraft

  • US 8,248,274 B2
  • Filed: 09/18/2009
  • Issued: 08/21/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for monitoring a flight of an aircraft using two navigation screens respectively dedicated to a pilot and to a copilot of said aircraft, of the typo consisting in the method comprising:

  • displaying on said screens, depending on the choice of the pilot and the copilot, at least information relating to the following of terrain, notably a trajectory, by said aircraft or information relating to meteorological conditions that the aircraft encounters during the flight, the information relating to the meteorological conditions is supplied by a meteorological radar on board said aircraft;

    triggering at least one warning representative of hazardous meteorological conditions detected by said meteorological radar and liable to be encountered by said aircraft while said navigation screens of said pilot and copilot simultaneously are displaying the terrain-following information, wherein said at least one warning is triggered when the information relating to the hazardous meteorological conditions is located in a predetermined volume relative to said aircraft, and the predetermined volume relative to said aircraft is represented in a horizontal plane and in a vertical plane on said navigation screens; and

    displaying said warning on at least one of said navigation screens.

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