Patent ID: 8140257

Claim:
A method of generating an aircraft ground path for piloting an aircraft along the ground of an airport domain, the method comprising the steps of: a) receiving, by a path receiving unit in the aircraft, a path defined by a series of elements of the airport domain, which elements the aircraft is to successively follow, with each element being comprised of at least two reference points which represent fixed geographical points of said airport domain; b) obtaining, by a coordinate extraction unit, the geographical coordinates of the reference points that correspond to the elements of said path that the aircraft is to follow; c) converting, by a conversion unit, the obtained geographical coordinates into a metric frame tied to the airport domain; d) determining, by an auxiliary path determining unit, points of intersection of the successive elements of said path and determining an auxiliary path for the aircraft to follow, based on the converted geographical coordinates; e) determining a turn, by a ground path determining unit, at each of said intersection points, and generating from each of the determined turns said aircraft ground path; and f) providing, by a ground path communication unit, the generated aircraft ground path to at least one user system.