Man/machine interface for control of the automatic pilot for piloted aerodyne provided with an ATN transmission network terminal

DETAILED DESCRIPTION An aim of the present invention is to simplify the pilot's task by automating this retranscription, to the automatic pilot and/or flight director, of a trajectory modification request formulated by an air traffic control authority, all this while granting the pilot leave to accept or reject this request.
It relates to a piloted aerodyne provided with a digital transmission terminal routing on board trajectory modification orders originating from an air traffic control authority, and returning the aerodyne pilot's acceptance or refusal to the air traffic control authority, with an automatic pilot and/or flight director having operating modes for tracking directives for attitude, heading, ground speed, vertical speed and altitude, and with a man/machine interface for control of the automatic pilot and/or flight director making it possible to choose an operating mode of the automatic pilot and/or flight director from among the possible modes and to tailor the mode chosen.
Its subject is a man/machine interface of the aforesaid type, provided with an access port which is linked to the transmission terminal and on which it receives, from the digital transmission terminal, the trajectory modification orders emanating from an air traffic control authority, with display means displaying the trajectory modification orders received by way of the digital transmission terminal, in a manner distinct from the directives currently being executed by the automatic pilot and/or flight director and enabling means imposing on the automatic pilot and/or flight director the operating mode and the directives corresponding to a trajectory modification order originating from an air traffic control authority, received by the digital transmission terminal and having formed the subject of an acceptance on the part of the pilot.
Advantageously, the display means of the man/machine interface for control of the automatic pilot and/or flight director alternately display, in various ways, a directive of an operating mode currently being executed and a directive corresponding to a trajectory modification order emanating from an air traffic control authority and on standby pending acceptance or refusal by the pilot