Abstract:
A method for exchanging data between a storage system on the ground-based and an onboard storage system of an aircraft is provided. The method includes a first step for synchronization of a set of data contained in the ground-based storage system with a corresponding set of data of a storage memory of a data exchange device, through a communications network, a step for coupling the data exchange device to a local internal network of the aircraft connected to the storage system, and then a second step for synchronization of the set of data of the storage memory with a corresponding set of data of the onboard storage system, through the local internal network.
Abstract:
An interior layout assembly of an aircraft cabin, and related method are provided. The assembly includes a table, a console defining a receiving housing and a cover mounted on the console. The cover in the closed configuration and the console define a passage slot between them. The assembly also includes a flap closing off the passage slot, movable by the table from an active configuration closing the passage slot to a retracted configuration freeing the passage slot during the passage of the table from its retracted position to the deployed position.
Abstract:
A supporting device for an interior layout assembly of an aircraft cabin, a related assembly and method are provided. The device includes a stationary frame; a table that can be deployed relative to the frame between a retracted position and a horizontal deployed position; a mechanism for guiding the movement of the table relative to the frame between the retracted position and the deployed horizontal position. The guide mechanism defines at least one bearing point for the table during its passage from the retracted position to the deployed horizontal position, the bearing point having a globally invariable position relative to the frame, the table being configured to pivot on the bearing point while moving laterally away relative to the bearing point, by sliding on the bearing point, to the deployed position.
Abstract:
A drain mast or discharging fluids from an aircraft and associated method are provided. This drain mast includes a fairing including a base including an upstream section intended to be attached on an outer surface of the aircraft and a downstream section. The drain mast also includes a discharge nozzle including a discharge end opening onto the outside of the fairing, the discharge nozzle protruding from the downstream section in a first direction with respect to the base, the base and the discharge nozzle defining a tubular through-cavity, extending from the upstream section as far as the discharge end. The fairing also includes a profiled section for guiding air, protruding from the downstream section, in a direction opposite to the first direction, and configured for orienting an incident mass of air on the profiled section towards the discharge end.
Abstract:
A method for detecting a failure of at least one sensor onboard an aircraft implementing wind detection is provided. The method includes measuring an airspeed of the aircraft; measuring a geographical speed of the aircraft; determining an instantaneous wind vector, based on the measured airspeed and geographical speed; establishing an instantaneous wind variation vector, based on the determined instantaneous wind vector; projecting the instantaneous wind variation vector on the direction of the vector of an air or geographical speed of the aircraft; and determining the presence of a failure based on the obtained projection.
Abstract:
A method for detecting a failure of at least one sensor onboard an aircraft implementing a baro-inertial loop is provided. The method includes implementing a baro-inertial loop including obtaining a computed vertical speed, then a short-term baro-inertial altitude, based on a double integration of the measured vertical acceleration; and developing at least one intermediate loop parameter based on a deviation between the short-term baro-inertial altitude and the pressure altitude. The method also includes observing at least one failure detection parameter obtained from one of the intermediate parameters of the baro-inertial loop; and determining the presence of a failure on one of the sensors of the aircraft based on the value of the observed failure detection parameter.
Abstract:
The system according to the invention comprises an assembly for managing the graphic interface of a display, capable of controlling the display, on at least a first region of the display, of a peripheral area formed by a synthetic image comprising at least one synthetic surface representation of the terrain, and capable of maintaining at least one area representative of the position of a landing runway, centered on the landing runway, and at least one front area, adjacent to the center area, substantially free of any synthetic surface representation of the terrain. The management assembly includes means for dynamically defining the length (L) of the front area on the display as a function of a vertical decision position (DP) associated with a selected approach for said landing runway.
Abstract:
The nose section for a flying machine according to the invention comprises an enclosure delimiting a nose cone extending along a longitudinal axis (A-A′), the enclosure delimiting a window, and a glass closing the window extending transversely relative to the longitudinal axis (A-A′). The nose section includes an optical sensor, in particular a camera, positioned in the enclosure behind the glass. The enclosure defines a recess, the window covered by the glass being at least partially positioned in the recess.
Abstract:
The device according to the invention comprises a holder and a transmitter supported by the holder, the transmitter being capable of transmitting an electromagnetic signal toward the surface any transmission frequency (Fe). It includes a receiver for receiving a signal reflected on the surface. The device comprises a guide assembly for guiding the movement of the holder to move the transmitter and the receiver across from the surface, tangentially relative to the surface. It comprises an extraction unit for extracting, in the signal received by the receiver, a shifted frequency component of the transmission frequency resulting from a local impedance variation of the surface. The extraction unit produces an extracted signal representative of the state of the surface from the shifted frequency component.
Abstract:
A system for piloting an aircraft includes a throttle, a flight parameter sensor system, and an engine calculator controlling thrust parameters of an engine of the aircraft. The piloting system includes a flight control unit connected to the engine calculator, the sensors and the throttle. The flight control unit generates a thrust control vector from a flight control law and sends a digital signal including the generated thrust control vector to the engine calculator. The engine calculator controlling said thrust parameters of the engine depending on the generated thrust control vector received.