FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT WITH AUTOPILOT

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a flight control system for an aircraft, comprising a first set of primary flight control computers and a second set of secondary flight control computers, where each primary flight control computer implements a first autopilot functionality. The secondary flight control computers jointly take control of control surface actuators when the primary flight control computers fail. The flight control system further comprises another computer (310), to which the secondary flight control computers are connected, which implements a second simplified autopilot functionality (311), the second autopilot functionality being activatable only when the second set of flight control computers has control of the control surface actuators.Thus, an autopilot functionality is widely available, while ensuring the robustness sought by the implementation of secondary flight control computers. Figure to be published with the abstract: Fig. 3.

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