Patent ID: 7896293
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: B64C,G05D,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A device for improving the maneuverability of an aircraft during an approach phase to landing and then a flare-out phase, in case of a required steep flight path angle of the approach phase, the aircraft being equipped with air brakes, the device comprising: an actuation unit which deploys and substantially keeps the air brakes in a first deployed position during the approach phase to obtain an angle of incidence of the aircraft during the approach phase of the aircraft; and a control unit which, as a function of a representative parameter of a given altitude, is programmed to control the actuation unit to automatically actuate a progressive transition of the air brakes so that the air brakes retract, for the beginning of the flare-out phase of the aircraft following the steep angle approach, to a second more retracted position than the first position to substantially maintain the same angle of incidence of the aircraft during the flare-out phase of the aircraft.