Automatic pilot process and system for aircraft approaching a parachute drop position

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The system (1) includes the means (2) to supply a speed profile enabling the aircraft to reach a parachute drop position at a predetermined theoretical arrival time with a predetermined speed an automatic pilot device (3) to determine the piloting orders of the aircraft so that it follows the speed profile activation means (4) for the aircraft's controlled units (5) to which the piloting orders are applied the means (6) to determine an actual arrival time at which the aircraft will actually reach the parachute drop position and the means (8) to correct the speed profile relative to the actual arrival time and to the theoretical arrival time the speed profile thus corrected being supplied to …