Patent ID: 8024078

Claim:
A system for aiding airport taxiing of an aircraft comprising: an onboard system linked to: a user interface, a user of the user interface being a crew of an aircraft, the user interface comprising a display device, and an inputting element, a device for ground-onboard communication with a ground control, and geo-location means, and the onboard system comprising: a location device linked to the geo-location means, a database management system, a mapping device linked to the location device, to the database management system and to the user interface, and a control device linked to the location device and to the database management system and to a central computer of alarms and which comprises a module of systematic alerts, wherein the database management system comprises a first database of airport maps having a data connectedness chaining, a second database which comprises possible movement and course preferences granted by the ground control, taxiing rules and airport procedures evolving over time, and in that the mapping device comprises an Airport map module for 2-dimensional graphical representation of data arising from the database management system, which comprises filtering the said data arising with a view to the graphical representation of the data arising and in that the control device is linked to the user interface and comprises: an Active monitoring module for representation and active monitoring linked to an anti-collision alert system, and/or a Mobile craft monitoring module for representing and monitoring mobile craft, linked to a traffic computer, and a resolution module linked to the Active monitoring module and/or Mobile craft monitoring module and able to modify a trajectory of the aircraft as a function of alerts.