Abstract: An apparatus and a method allowing a pilot or more generally a crew to enrich a database of user obstacles directly inside the aircraft, on the ground and even during flight. Generally, the apparatus is based on a new software component, which allows new services to be provided for the functional avionic components and for the human machine interfaces HMI of the avionics. This new software component is configured to allow: user obstacles to be created, changed, deleted at the request of components of HMIs of the avionics; user obstacles to be sent to clients of the services of this new software component, which are either other functional components of the avionics or other components of HMIs of the avionics; user obstacles to be recorded to a nonvolatile memory and restored from this nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: A method for enriching an obstacle database of an aircraft, the method being implemented by an on-board computer of the aircraft, and includes a creation phase performed on board the aircraft, involving a simple interaction between the pilot and a system of the cockpit, for creating an intermediate object representative of a user obstacle, the user obstacle being an obstacle identified by the pilot and not listed in the obstacle database of the aircraft, the intermediate object being created with a geographical position as its sole attribute; and a subsequent phase performed on board the aircraft, consisting in: adding type attributes characterizing the user obstacle to the intermediate object; and storing the user obstacle with the added attributes in a non-volatile memory of a module of the cockpit of the aircraft.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method allowing a pilot or more generally a crew to enrich a database of user obstacles directly inside the aircraft, on the ground and even during flight. Generally, the apparatus is based on a new software component, which allows new services to be provided for the functional avionic components and for the human machine interfaces HMI of the avionics. This new software component is configured to allow: user obstacles to be created, changed, deleted at the request of components of HMIs of the avionics; user obstacles to be sent to clients of the services of this new software component, which are either other functional components of the avionics or other components of HMIs of the avionics; user obstacles to be recorded to a nonvolatile memory and restored from this nonvolatile memory.