Abstract: The invention relates to compliance with the safety distances between aircraft travelling, in a queue, one behind the other, through a prescribed air corridor. It is more especially concerned with a process allowing an aircraft knowing its position and those of the various aircraft flying in its close vicinity, for example by virtue of the ADS-B system, to manage by itself its separation distance with respect to another aircraft taken as reference. Such a process is an aid afforded to the crew of an aircraft and to the control authority regulating the traffic in the relevant air corridor.

Abstract: The preparation of an avoidance path in the horizontal plane so that an aircraft can resolve a conflict of routes with another aircraft that entails a risk of collision within 5 to 10 minutes. This avoidance path minimizes the negative effects of the resultant route diversion on the flight plan of the aircraft. A method prepares an avoidance path with two parts. The first part is an evasive part with an initial heading such that the threatening aircraft takes a path, in relation to the threatened aircraft, that is tangential, on one side or the other, to the edges of the angle at which the threatening aircraft perceives a circle of protection plotted around the threatened aircraft. The radius of this circle of protection is equal to a minimum permissible separation distance. The second part of the evasive path is that of homing in on the initial route. This method of preparing an avoidance path can be implemented by a flight management computer.

Abstract: The invention relates to compliance with the safety distances between aircraft travelling, in a queue, one behind the other, through a prescribed air corridor. It is more especially concerned with a process allowing an aircraft knowing its position and those of the various aircraft flying in its close vicinity, for example by virtue of the ADS-B system, to manage by itself its separation distance with respect to another aircraft taken as reference. Such a process is an aid afforded to the crew of an aircraft and to the control authority regulating the traffic in the relevant air corridor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of an avoidance path in the horizontal plane so that an aircraft can resolve a conflict of routes with another aircraft that entails a risk of collision within 5 to 10 minutes. This avoidance path minimizes the negative effects of the resultant route diversion on the flight plan of the aircraft. The object of the invention is a method for preparing an avoidance path with two parts. The first part is an evasive part with an initial heading such that the threatening aircraft takes a path, in relation to the threatened aircraft, that is tangential, on one side or the other, to the edges of the angle at which the threatening aircraft perceives a circle of protection plotted around the threatened aircraft. The radius of this circle of protection is equal to a minimum permissible separation distance. The second part of the evasive path is that of homing in on the initial route.

Abstract: A process for managing air speed of an aircraft in flight. The method includes a first step of determining a point on the flight path at which it is theoretically possible to comply with a required time constraint by following a pre-established speed profile. In a second step, a speed is computed and a fresh speed profile is determined. This is obtained by determining speed corrections segment-by-segment from the point up to the last modifiable segment. The speed change in each segment is restricted to a maximum value. The new speed is computed on the basis of the curve showing the flight time t as a function of the speed V. This curve is approximated by a curve satisfying an equation with three coefficients (C.sub.1, C.sub.2, C.sub.3):V=c.sub.1 /t+c.sub.2 /t.sup.2 +c.sub.3 /t.sup.3Compliance with time constraints are ensured by this method while meeting the requirements of the pilot and air traffic controllers.