US 12,358,645 B2
System for monitoring the operational status of an aircraft between successive missions of the aircraft, and associated method
Virginie Marcelot, Merignac (FR); and Rémi Breban, Merignac (FR)
Assigned to DASSAULT AVIATION, Paris (FR)
Filed by DASSAULT AVIATION, Paris (FR)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/175,905.
Claims priority of application No. 20 01532 (FR), filed on Feb. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0253275 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. B64F 5/60 (2017.01); B64D 43/00 (2006.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC B64F 5/60 (2017.01) [B64D 43/00 (2013.01); B64D 45/00 (2013.01); G07C 5/085 (2013.01); B64D 2045/0075 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aircraft operational status monitoring system to monitor an aircraft operational status between successive aircraft missions comprising:
a first interface configured to enter and/or to load sets of flight logbook data and technical logbook data, each set of the sets of flight logbook data and technical logbook data corresponding to a successive flight of an aircraft during at least one mission, the first interface being configured to acquire a level of consumable at an end of each of the at least one mission and/or at a start of each of the at least one mission;
a second interface configured to enter and/or to load a mission context containing mission context data of at least one future mission of the aircraft;
a computer configured to determine at least one operational impact measurement on the at least one future mission of the aircraft, the at least one operational impact measurement being related to a consumable of the aircraft, the at least one operational impact measurement being determined as a function of the flight logbook data and/or the technical logbook data of at least one already completed mission of the aircraft and/or as a function of the mission context of the at least one future mission of the aircraft; and
a display and a display manager on the display, wherein the display manager is configured:
to display on the display a global operational impact monitoring window, the monitoring window including mission icons respectively showing successive missions of the aircraft, the successive missions including the at least one future mission; and
to display at least one operational impact indicator related to the mission icon associated with the at least one future mission being impacted, to alert that the at least one future mission will be impacted, if the at least one operational impact measurement determined by the computer has a first value of operational impact on the at least one future mission,
wherein the level of consumable is selected among a fuel level, a water level, an oil level, a waste level, and/or an air pressure level in a tire of the aircraft;
wherein the computer is configured:
to determine an estimated level of consumable present in the aircraft based on the flight logbook data obtained from the first interface and to compare the estimated level of consumable present in the aircraft with a measured or recorded level of consumable, to obtain the at least one operational impact measurement; and/or
to determine a consumable level present in the aircraft at an end of a future mission based on an estimate of a consumable level consumed during a previous mission obtained from the flight logbook data via the first interface and based on the mission context data obtained via the second interface, in order to obtain the at least one operational impact measurement.