Patent ID: 8090525

Claim:
A device for automated evolutionary assistance to air traffic controllers including a computer having a software program permitting the receipt of data for equipping an air traffic control system including flight plans of aircraft and Radars and elaborating and displaying them to air traffic controllers, the air traffic controllers having a radiotelephony link for communicating with the aircraft, the device comprising: a software module for establishing and updating a computer agenda, which is a list of the aircrafts' potential conflicts on the basis of any information and computation means of the computer; said software module configured for selecting, among said computer agenda, potential conflicts on crossing trajectories which are solvable by modification(s) of aircraft speed, climbing or descending rates and lateral shift of route, said modification(s) being so minor as to not interfere with the air traffic controllers' decision making processes; and a data link between said computer and an on-board computer of the aircraft, the data-link being used for automatically: (i) collecting complementary data from said on-board computer of the aircraft, said complementary data including flight data for establishing said computer agenda, and (ii) transmitting said minor modification(s) of flight parameters to said on-board computer for execution by the aircraft without requiring the air traffic controllers' prior agreement.