Patent ID: 8224508

Claim:
A viewing system of the synthetic vision system SVS type, for an aircraft, said system comprising at least one navigation database, a cartographic database of a terrain, position sensors, anemometric sensors, terrain gradient measurement sensors, an electronic computer, a man-machine interface means and a display screen, the computer comprising means of processing the various information obtained from the databases, from the sensors and from the interface means, said processing means arranged to provide on the display screen a synthetic image of the terrain comprising a representation of the final destination, wherein said representation includes a physical representation of an aeronautical-type air sock comprising three parts, a bottom part situated at the conformal location of the position of the final destination on the terrain, a vertical junction line and a perspective representation of the air sock itself, positioned above said junction line, the form and the orientation of the bottom part being representative of the local gradient of the terrain at the location of said air sock.