Patents by Inventor Ecole Nationale de L'Aviation Civile (E.N.A.C.)

Ecole Nationale de L'Aviation Civile (E.N.A.C.) has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130079958
    Abstract: A method for guiding an aircraft during its final approach to a landing runway, whereby the aircraft is guided during its approach by aircraft position information obtained from an GNSS satellite navigation system, wherein: prior to the start of the final approach a first time tFAF is determined corresponding with the start of said final approach and a second time tTD corresponding with the landing of the aircraft on said runway, then a set of satellites is determined of the satellite navigation system for excluding from the calculation of said aircraft position information during at least a part of the time interval comprised between said first and second times; and during the final approach, the aircraft position information is determined while excluding the information corresponding with all the satellites of said set of satellites and the aircraft is guided along its final approach path by said position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicants: ECOLE NATIONALE DE L'AVIATION CIVILE (E.N.A.C.), AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Airbus Operations S.A.S., Ecole Nationale de L'Aviation Civile (E.N.A.C.)