Patent ID: 8666566

Claim:
An aircraft control system containing several aircraft control computers for an aircraft, said system comprising: a first server and a second server each located on said aircraft, the first server connected to a first subassembly of said control computers through a plurality of primary data transmission links and the second server connected to a second, different subassembly of said control computers through a plurality of primary data transmission links, said first server: containing at least one aeronautical data base; upon request of a computer of said first subassembly of control computers, supplying information from said at least one aeronautical data base directly to the computer of said first subassembly of control computers in real-time, through a respective one of said plurality of primary data transmission links; and upon request from a computer of said first subassembly of control computers, supplying information from said at least one aeronautical data base to said computer of said first subassembly of control computers, in real-time, when said information is not available in a local data base of said computer of said first subassembly of control computers, wherein said several aircraft control computers comprise a flight management computer, an airport navigation computer, an environment surveillance computer, and an ADIRS computer, and said first subassembly of control computers comprises the flight management computer, the airport navigation computer and the environment surveillance computer, which are in communication with the first server through a respective one of the plurality of primary data transmission links.