Patent ID: 6970106

Claim:
In a first aircraft having a cockpit with a canopy, a device for aiding the visual spotting of a second aircraft in flight by the pilot of the first aircraft looking at the sky through the canopy, the device comprising: an approximately vertical display device; a first means for displaying on the display device a representation of the canopy; a communication means for receiving position information relating to the second aircraft from an outside source; and a second means for displaying on the display device, using the received position information, a symbol representative of the second aircraft such that the position of the symbol in relation to the displayed representation of the canopy corresponds to the position of the second aircraft in relation to the aircraft's canopy as seen through the pilot's field of view, wherein: a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, whose intersection is representative of the position of the first aircraft on the display device, are also displayed on the display device.