Patent ID: 8660715
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G05D,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for operating and automatically monitoring a flight management assembly for an aircraft implementing air operations requiring navigation and guidance performance, the flight management assembly comprising a first flight management system and a second flight management system, and the method comprising: operating the first and second flight management systems in dual mode so that the first flight management system acts as a master system and the second flight management system acts as a slave system with intercommunication between the master and slave systems, detecting, with an obligation detection device of the first flight management system, an obligation to implement an operation affecting a flight plan of the first flight management system, emitting a request, with a communication device of the first flight management system, to the second flight management system, the request requiring to carry out at least one operation affecting the flight plan of the second flight management system, upon emitting the request, checking, with a change condition verification device operatively coupled to the second flight management system, that conditions for implementing the request are met; and performing one of the following operations, with a change implementation device of the second flight management system, as a function of the checking step: