METHOD FOR FLIGHT INSPECTION OF GROUND-BASED RADIO FLIGHT SUPPORT EQUIPMENT AND APPARATUS FOR REALISING SAID METHOD Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G01S7/40 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: method for flight inspection of ground-based radio flight support equipment involves using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the aircraft, measuring coordinates of the UAV using an optical device and simultaneously during operation of said radio equipment, generating, using onboard receivers, measurement radio navigation signals which are encoded, emitted into space, received on Earth by ground-based devices, decoded, processed together with signals from the output of the optical device; displaying and recording signal processing and measurement results. The invention describes a method and apparatus for flight inspection of output characteristics of localiser, glide-path and marker beacons, azimuth-range beacons and automatic direction finders.

EFFECT: broader functional capabilities and low cost of making flight adjustments and inspections of localiser, glide-path and marker beacons, azimuth-range beacons and automatic direction finders.

7 cl, 7 dwg