| US 7,493,196 B2 | ||
| On-board flight management system for aircraft | ||
| Christophe Caillaud, Blagnac (France); and Vincent Jacquier, Blagnac (France) | ||
| Assigned to Thales, (France) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/544,839 PCT Filed Feb. 20, 2004, PCT No. PCT/EP2004/050179 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 08, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/085964, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 07, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 03 03894 (FR), filed on Mar. 28, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0142904 A1, Jun. 29, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01C 23/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 701—3 [244/1 R; 244/221; 244/75.1; 340/972; 340/973; 701/4; 701/14; 701/200] | 3 Claims |
| 1. An onboard flight management system for aircraft comprising a flight management computer coupled to a navigation database,
to a navigation screen and to a data input and display console,
the flight management computer ensuring the plotting of a flight plan on the basis of data introduced by means of the data
input and display console,
the navigation database incorporating the plotting elements necessary for the flight management computer to plot flight plan
parts satisfying various navigation procedures that the aircraft may have to comply with, some of these navigation procedures
being subject to regulations and
the data input and display console making reference to the navigation procedures subject to regulation by way of identifiers,
wherein said flight management computer depicts, during the introduction of the flight plan's plotting data, on the navigation
screen, the plots of a flight plan part corresponding to a navigation procedure subject to regulations catalogued in the navigation
data base when its identifier is mentioned on the data input and display console.
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