Patent ID: 7850125

Claim:
A method for piloting, on approach and on landing, an aircraft having two symmetric wings including deployable and retractable lift-augmenting aerodynamic surfaces configured to confer one of a smooth configuration and at least one lift-augmented configuration on said wings, and deployable and retractable spoilers, the method comprising: carrying at least two symmetric spoilers respectively by said wings, which are deployed in a symmetric manner so as to counteract wake vortices produced by said aircraft; automatically ordering the spoilers to deploy when said lift-augmenting aerodynamic surfaces are ordered to deploy so as to confer an approach and landing lift-augmented configuration on said wings; calculating three conditions as follows: whether an angle of incidence α of the aircraft is equal to or greater than an incidence threshold αs, whether the speed Vc of the aircraft is equal to or less than a speed threshold Vs, and whether the aircraft is instigating a go-around maneuver; and automatically ordering the deployed spoilers to retract when at least one of the three conditions holds.