Patent ID: 8996201
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G01C,G07C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for exchanging data between a technical management system of an aircraft and a mission management system of the aircraft to permit each of the systems to determine consequences of an event detected in the other of the systems, the event including a fault detection, a datum received from an aircraft or external system, or a datum acquired by a pilot, the technical management system and the mission management system are independent of each other so that the technical management system manages technical management data and the mission management system manages mission management data, the method comprising: detecting, in one of the technical management system and the mission management system of the aircraft, at least one event including the fault detection, the datum received from the aircraft or external system, or the datum acquired by the pilot; transmitting, from each one of the technical management system and the mission management system, at least one information item pertaining to the detected event to the other of the technical management system and the mission management system of the aircraft; determining, in the other of the technical management system and the mission management system of the aircraft, consequences of the detected event; evaluating, by the mission management system, whether at least one datum in the mission management data managed by the mission management system should be adapted based on the at least one information item pertaining to the detected event, when the technical management system transmits the at least one information item pertaining to the detected event; and evaluating, by the technical management system, whether at least one datum in the technical management data managed by the technical management system should be adapted based on the at least one information item pertaining to the detected event, when the mission management system transmits the at least one information item pertaining to the detected event.