System and method for control of an auxiliary power unit -APU- featuring an automatic cooldown time start and an autonomous APU shutdown right after main engines start if the APU is not supplying any power to the aircraft, such as, pneumatic, electrical, e...

A system and method for controlling the operation of a gas turbine engine supplying power to an aircraft, where the engine is controlled according to a reading of an amount of power drawn from the supplied power. The reading is fed directly to a control sy...

Methods for controlling an aircraft turbofan engine during icing of a temperature probe and devices for carrying out such methods are described. The methods may comprise: using (46) one or more signals representative of temperature received from a heated t...

Propeller-driven aircraft (30) comprising an engine (31) providing mechanical engine power for rotating a propeller (32), an engine limiting unit (35), an engine control unit (37) for controlling the mechanical engine power of the engine (31), a system (36...