Patent ID: 8868257
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: G01C,G05D

Abstract:
1. A device for defining a flight path enabling an aircraft to reach a destination, said device comprising: a digital terrain model; a digital noise database having volumes to be avoided, each volume to be avoided being a zone in which an aircraft emits noise generating a sound footprint above a predetermined threshold value on the ground at predetermined sites; an aircraft database supplied by the manufacturer of an aircraft and characterizing the noise generated by said aircraft; a legislative database containing the regulations to be complied with in terms of noise emissions; a display screen; generator means for generating a flight path including at least one flight segment associated with a flying altitude; and a computer with a main memory containing instructions enabling the following to be displayed on said display screen as an overlay on a first representation of said terrain as provided by said digital terrain model: a second representation of said volumes to be avoided; and a flight path that has been generated by using said generator means; wherein by executing said instructions said computer generates said noise database from said aircraft database and said legislative database.